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We report the detection at X-rays of the radio/optical jet of 3C 371, from a short (10 ks) Chandra exposure in March 2000. We also present a new MERLIN observation at 1.4 GHz together with a renalysis of the archival HST WFPC2 F555W image.…

Chandra ACIS observations of PKS 0521-365 find that the X-ray emission of this BL Lac object consists of emission from an unresolved core, a diffuse halo, and a 2 arcsec jet feature coincident with the inner radio/optical jet. A comparison…

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We report the Chandra discovery of an X-ray jet associated with the redshift 4.3 radio-loud quasar GB 1508+5714. The jet X-ray emission peaks ~2 arcsec to the South-West of the quasar core. We present archival HST WFPC2 data of the quasar…

The FRI/FRII dichotomy is a much debated issue in the astrophysics of extragalactic radio sources. Study of the properties of HYbrid MOrphology Radio Sources (HYMORS) may bring crucial information and lead to a step forward in understanding…

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Unexpectedly strong X-ray emission from extragalactic radio jets on kiloparsec scales has been one of the major discoveries of Chandra, the only X-ray observatory capable of sub-arcsecond-scale imaging. The origin of this X-ray emission,…

The physical origin of the X-ray emission in powerful quasar jets has been a long-standing mystery. Though these jets start out on the sub-pc scale as highly relativistic flows, we do not have any direct measurement of their speeds on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Eileen T. Meyer , Markos Georganopoulos , William B. Sparks , Leith Godfrey , Eric Perlman

We present Chandra X-ray (0.2-8 keV) and Very Large Array radio (15 and 5 GHz) images of the $\gamma$-ray bright, superluminal quasar 0827+243. The X-ray jet bends sharply--by ~90 deg., presumably amplified by projection effects--5'' from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Svetlana Jorstad , Alan Marscher

This paper presents multiwavelength imaging and broad-band spectroscopy of the relativistic jets in the two nearby radio galaxies 3C 371 and PKS 2201+044, acquired with Chandra, HST, VLA, and Merlin. Radio polarization images are also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. M. Sambruna , D. Donato , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , C. C. Cheung , C. M. Urry

We present deep (70-80 ks) Chandra and multicolor HST ACS images of two jets hosted by the powerful quasars 1136-135 and 1150+497, together with new radio observations. The sources have an FRII morphology and were selected from our previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Sambruna , M. Gliozzi , D. Donato , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , C. C. Cheung , M. Urry , J. F. C. Wardle

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…

Over 150 resolved, kpc-scale X-ray jets hosted by active galactic nuclei have been discovered with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. A significant fraction of these jets have an X-ray spectrum either too high in flux or too hard to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Peter Breiding , Eileen T. Meyer , Markos Georganopoulos , Karthik Reddy , Kassidy E. Kollmann , Agniva Roychowdhury

We present a multiwavelength study of the nucleus, environment, jets, and hotspots of the nearby FRII radio galaxy 3C 321, using new and archival data from MERLIN, the VLA, Spitzer, HST, and Chandra. An initially collimated radio jet…

The overall classification of X-ray jets has clung to that prevalent in the radio: FRI vs. FRII (including quasars). Indeed, the common perception is that X-ray emission from FRI's is synchrotron emission whereas that from FRII's may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 D. E. Harris , F. Massaro , C. C. Cheung

We report detailed studies of the X-ray emission from the kpc scale jet in the nearest active galaxy, Cen A. 41 compact sources were found within the jet, 13 of which were newly identified. We construct the luminosity function for the…

The connection between the accretion process that powers AGN and the formation of jets is still poorly understood. Here we tackle this issue using new, deep \chandra and \xmm observations of the cores of three powerful radio loud quasars:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. M. Sambruna , M. Gliozzi , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , L. Foschini

Relativistic jets are the most energetic manifestation of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomenon. AGN jets are observed from the radio through gamma-rays and carry copious amounts of matter and energy from the sub-parsec central…

Since its launch in 1999, the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered several dozen X-ray jets associated with powerful quasars. In many cases the X-ray spectrum is hard and appears to come from a second spectral component. The most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-16 Peter Breiding , Eileen T. Meyer , Markos Georganopoulos , M. E. Keenan , N. S. DeNigris , Jennifer Hewitt

We report the Chandra detection of an X-ray jet in 3C 15. The peak of the X-ray emission in the jet is 4.1'' (a projected distance of 5.1 kpc) from the nucleus, and coincident with a component previously identified in the radio and optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Kataoka , J. P. Leahy , P. G. Edwards , M. Kino , F. Takahara , Y. Serino , N. Kawai , A. R. Martel

We present new narrow-band near-infrared images together with K band spectra of highly collimated bipolar jets close to the IRAS 05487+0255 source. The jets are located at 50" West of the Herbig-Haro 110 outflow. The jets are not visible at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Garnavich , A. Noriega-Crespo , A. Raga , K. H. Bohm

(ABRIDGED) We present here the results from new Very Long Baseline Array observations at 1.6 and 5 GHz of 19 galaxies of a complete sample of 21 UGC FRI radio galaxies. New Chandra data of two sources, viz., UGC00408 and UGC08433, are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Kharb , C. O'Dea , A. Tilak , S. Baum , E. Haynes , J. Noel-Storr , C. Fallon , K. Christiansen