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We review the current status of resolved X-ray emission associated with extragalactic radio jets and hotspots. The primary question for any particular jet is to decide if the X-rays come from the synchrotron process or from inverse Compton…

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The interstellar medium of galaxies, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, provides a pivotal perspective for understanding the physical and chemical properties of star formation, galactic evolution, and their associated…

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Massive gas outflows are considered a key component in the process of galaxy formation and evolution. Because of this, they are the topic of many studies aimed at learning more about their occurrence, location and physical conditions as…

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Spectral analysis of ROSAT PSPC and ASCA archive data and a recent ROSAT HRI observation of the powerful FRII radio galaxy 3C 219 reveal an absorbed point-like source, coincident with the nucleus, and a non-thermal extended component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Brunetti , A. Comastri , G. Setti , L. Feretti

We investigated the relation between compact jet emission and X-ray variability properties of all black hole transients with multiwavelength coverage during their outburst decays. We studied the evolution of all power spectral components…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Tolga Dincer , Emrah Kalemci , John A. Tomsick , Michelle M. Buxton , Charles D. Bailyn

Many X-ray observations of GigaHertz Peaked Spectrum and Compact Steep Spectrum sources have been made with Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton Observatory over the last few years. The X-ray spectra contribute the important information…

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Giant radio galaxies (GRGs), a minority among the extended-jetted population, form in a wide range of jet and environmental configurations, complicating the identification of the growth factors that facilitate their attainment of megaparsec…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-19 Gourab Giri , Joydeep Bagchi , Kshitij Thorat , Roger P. Deane , Jacinta Delhaize , D. J. Saikia

This paper describes an investigation of the early evolution of extragalactic radio sources using samples of faint and bright Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) and Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio galaxies. Correlations found between their…

Inverse Compton (IC) scattering of nuclear photons with relativistic electrons in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies and quasars can give detectable extended X-ray emission from the radio lobes if relativistic electrons with a Lorentz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Brunetti , M. Cappi , G. Setti , L. Feretti , D. E. Harris

X-ray emission due to inverse-Compton scattering of microwave background photons by electrons in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies has now been seen in a large number of objects. Combining an inverse-Compton model for the lobe X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-29 J. L. Goodger , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , N. E. Kassim , R. A. Perley

Deep Chandra and VLA imaging reveals a clear correlation between X-ray and radio emission on scales $\sim 100$~kpc in the Spiderweb radio galaxy at z=2.16. The X-ray emission associated with the extended radio source is likely dominated by…

The intrinsic X-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is often found to be absorbed over and above the column density through our own galaxy. The extra component is usually assumed to be due to absorbing gas lying within the host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. L. C. Starling , R. Willingale , N. R. Tanvir , A. E. Scott , K. Wiersema , P. T. O'Brien , A. J. Levan , G. C. Stewart

We present Chandra observations of two relatively high redshift FRII radio galaxies, 3C 432 and 3C 191 (z=1.785 and z=1.956 respectively), both of which show extended X-ray emission along the axis of the radio jet or lobe. This X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 M. C. Erlund , A. C. Fabian , Katherine M. Blundell , A. Celotti , C. S. Crawford

New high energy emission features have been recently discovered by the Cherenkov telescopes from active galaxies e.g., a few minutes variability time scale of TeV emission from Mrk 501 and PKS 2155-304, sub-TeV $\gamma$-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Sitarek , W. Bednarek

We investigated the multiband emission from the pulsar binaries XSS J12270-4859, PSR J2039-5617, and PSR J2339-0533, which exhibit orbital modulation in the X-ray and gamma-ray bands. We constructed the sources' broadband spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-06 Minju Sim , Hongjun An , Zorawar Wadiasingh

Gigahertz-Peaked spectrum (GPS) sources are compact active galactic nuclei, presumably young precursors of bright radio sources. The study of GPS radio properties provides information about the features of synchrotron radiation in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Yu. Sotnikova , T. Mufakharov , E. Majorova , M. Mingaliev , R. Udovitskiy , N. Bursov , T. Semenova

We report on deep Chandra X-ray Telescope imaging observations of 4C 63.20, one of the few known radio galaxies at z>3.5. The X-ray counterpart is resolved into a core plus two off-nuclear sources that (combined) account for close to 30% of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Kate Napier , Adi Foord , Elena Gallo , Gabriele Ghisellini , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Jianfeng Wu , Francesco Haardt , Benedetta Ciardi

Recent advances in the X-ray and soft gamma-ray observations of accreting black holes and microquasars, in particular, are reviewed. The radiative processes responsible for the emission are discussed briefly. The hybrid thermal/nonthermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juri Poutanen , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

Quasars with flat radio spectra and one-sided, arc-second scale, ~100 mJy GHz radio jets are found to have similar scale X-ray jets in about 60% of such objects, even in short 5 to 10 ks Chandra observations. Jets emit in the GHz band via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Daniel A. Schwartz

Jet models for the high-energy emission of Galactic X-ray binary sources have regained significant interest with detailed spectral and timing studies of the X-ray emission from microquasars, the recent detection by the HESS collaboration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Swati Gupta , Markus Boettcher , Charles D. Dermer