Precessing jets from a moving source and bright X-ray filaments in galaxy clusters
Abstract
We present hydrodynamical calculations carried out with the 3D yguazu-a code of a precessing jet model, which interacts with a plane parallel wind. This scenario describes an extragalactic jet, in which the jet source is in motion with respect to the surrounding intra-cluster medium. From the numerical results, synthetic emission maps and spectra in X-ray band were obtained. We compare these predictions with observations of the radio jets emanating from the radio-galaxy 4C 26.42 (in the Abell 1795 galaxy cluster). We find that the general morphology of the radio jets can be described by a point-symmetric precessing jet system interacting with a plane parallel wind (i.e., the intra-cluster medium flowing past the galaxy). We also find that our synthetic X-ray emission maps reproduce the observed large scale structures (with sizes of the order of tens of kpc).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0510234,
title = {Precessing jets from a moving source and bright X-ray filaments in galaxy clusters},
author = {Mario Rodríguez-Martínez and Pablo F. Velázquez and Luc Binette and Alejandro C. Raga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0510234},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in A&A - 7 Pages, 6 figures