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Bright features (`knots') in extragalactic jets are commonly associated with reheating of charged particles in regions with shocks or strong compression. We find a natural appearance of nozzles in simulations of toroidally magnetized jets,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

We discuss the extended X-ray emission seen in three archival Chandra observations, and one archival XMM-Newton observation, of the FRII radio galaxy Pictor A. The overall properties of the X-ray lobes are consistent with the conclusions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston

The Chandra discovery of bright X-ray emission from kpc-scale jets provides us unprecedented insights into the physical state of the plasma in the flow. In particular it is possible to get good constraints on the power and pressure in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabrizio Tavecchio

We present a spatial and spectral analysis of arcsecond-scale X-ray emission in SS 433 using zeroth-order data from Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observations. The analysis is based on 24 observations acquired between 1999…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Yusuke Sakai , Shinya Yamada , Haruka Sakemi , Mami Machida , Taichi Igarashi , Ryota Hayakawa , Miho Tan , Taisei Furuyama

Radio observations by ALMA and upper limits on gamma ray flux by Fermi LAT have ruled out inverse Compton scattering of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation by relativistic electrons (IC/CMB) as the origin of X-ray emission from extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Samaresh Mondal , Nayantara Gupta

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope of the FRII radio galaxy Pictor A reveal a number of jet knot candidates which coincide with previously detected radio and x-ray knots. Previous observations in x-ray and radio bands show the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-28 Eric S. Gentry

We evaluate the achievable maximum energy of nuclei diffusively accelerated by shock wave in the jet of Cen A, based on an updated model involving the stochastic magnetic fields that are responsible for recent synchrotron X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-25 Mitsuru Honda

We present new 21-cm HI observations performed with ATCA of the large HI filament located about 15 kpc NE from the centre of Centaurus A and discovered by Schiminovich et al.(1994). This HI cloud is situated (in projection) near the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Oosterloo , R. Morganti

We present results from Chandra X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of a flux-limited sample of flat spectrum radio-emitting quasars with jet-like extended structure. Twelve of twenty quasar jets are detected in 5 ks ACIS-S exposures. The…

We have obtained milliarcsecond-scale spectral index distributions for a sample of 190 extragalactic radio jets through the MOJAVE project. The sources were observed in 2006 at 8.1, 8.4, 12.1, and 15.4 GHz, and we study the four-frequency…

We report the detection of infrared emission from the jet of the nearby FR I radio galaxy 3C 31. The jet was detected with the IRAC instrument on Spitzer at 4.5 micron, 5.8 micron, and 8.0 micron out to 30" (13 kpc) from the nucleus. We…

Chandra observations of knots and hot spots in spatially resolved X-ray jets of radio galaxies show that the X-ray fluxes often lie above an extrapolation from the radio-to-optical continuum fluxes. We show that combined synchrotron and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles D. Dermer , Armen M. Atoyan

We present the X-ray analysis of a deep ~200 ksec Chandra observation of the compact steep spectrum radio-loud quasar 3C 186 (z=1.06) and investigate the contribution of the unresolved radio jet to the total X-ray emission. The spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Migliori , A. Siemiginowska , A. Celotti

The high resolution image of the jet of the BL Lac object MKN501 in radio, show a limb-brightened feature. An explanation of this feature as an outcome of differential Doppler boosting of jet spine and jet boundary due to transverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Sahayanathan

We present Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR images of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant that survey its high-velocity, S-rich debris in the NE jet and SW counterjet regions through [S III] 9069, 9531 and [S II] 10,287 - 10,370 line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Robert A. Fesen , Dan Milisavljevic

Observations of the Vela pulsar-wind nebula (PWN) with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a complex, variable PWN structure, including inner and outer arcs, a jet in the direction of the pulsar's proper motion, and a counter-jet in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. G. Pavlov , M. A. Teter , O. Kargaltsev , D. Sanwal

We report Chandra ACIS-S3 x-ray imaging and spectroscopy of the R Aquarii binary system that show a spatially resolved two-sided jet and an unresolved central source. This is the first published report of such an x-ray jet seen in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Kellogg , J. A. Pedelty , R. G. Lyon

Chandra observations of the Vela pulsar-wind nebula (PWN) have revealed a jet in the direction of the pulsar's proper motion, and a counter-jet in the opposite direction, embedded in diffuse nebular emission. The jet consists of a bright,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov , M. A. Teter , D. Sanwal

We report initial results from the detection of optical emission in the arcsecond-scale radio jets of two quasars utilizing images from the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} archive. The optical emission has a very knotty appearance and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. C. Cheung , J. F. C. Wardle , Tingdong Chen , S. P. Hariton

We investigate the structure of the kpc-scale jet in the nearby (z = 0.073) radio galaxy 3C 15, using new optical Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS/F606W polarimetry together with archival multi-band HST imaging, Chandra X-ray data and 8.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Dulwich , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , C. A. Padgett , E. S. Perlman