Structure of the X-Ray Emission from the Jet of 3C 273
| Autor: | Antonella Fruscione, Aneta Siemiginowska, Deron O. Pease, Patrick Ogle, Saeqa Dil Vrtilek, Bradford J. Wargelin, Jeremy J. Drake, J. P. Grimes, Herman L. Marshall, S. Mathur, Stephen S. Murray, Daniel E. Harris, Ralph P. Kraft, Daniel A. Schwartz, Michael Juda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Physics
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics (astro-ph) X-ray FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Quasar Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Position angle Power law Synchrotron law.invention Knot (unit) Space and Planetary Science law Observatory Spectral slope |
| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal. 549:L167-L171 |
| ISSN: | 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.1086/319161 |
| Popis: | We present images from five observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The jet has at least four distinct features which are not resolved in previous observations. The first knot in the jet (A1) is very bright in X-rays. Its X-ray spectrum is well fitted with a power law with alpha = 0.60 +/- 0.05. Combining this measurement with lower frequency data shows that a pure synchrotron model can fit the spectrum of this knot from 1.647 GHz to 5 keV (over nine decades in energy) with alpha = 0.76 +/- 0.02, similar to the X-ray spectral slope. Thus, we place a lower limit on the total power radiated by this knot of 1.5e43 erg/s; substantially more power may be emitted in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands. Knot A2 is also detected and is somewhat blended with knot B1. Synchrotron emission may also explain the X-ray emission but a spectral bend is required near the optical band. For knots A1 and B1, the X-ray flux dominates the emitted energy. For the remaining optical knots (C through H), localized X-ray enhancements that might correspond to the optical features are not clearly resolved. The position angle of the jet ridge line follows the optical shape with distinct, aperiodic excursions of +/-1 deg from a median value of -138.0deg. Finally, we find X-ray emission from the ``inner jet'' between 5 and 10" from the core. 10 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. For the color image, see fig1.ps or http://space.mit.edu/~hermanm/papers/3c273/fig1.jpg |
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