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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…

A puzzling feature of the {\it Chandra}--detected quasar jets is that their X-ray emission decreases faster along the jet than their radio emission, resulting to an outward increasing radio to X-ray ratio. In some sources this behavior is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Markos Georganopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas

We report results from Chandra observations of the X-ray jet of 3C~273 during the calibration phase in 2000 January. The zeroeth-order images and spectra from two 40-ks exposures with the HETG and LETG+ACIS-S show a complex X-ray structure.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rita M. Sambruna , C. Megan Urry , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , R. Scarpa , G. Chartas , T. Muxlow

Deep ROSAT PSPC and HRI observations of the nuclear starburst, UV flat spectrum spiral NGC6217 reveal a jet-like X-ray filament extending out 2.7' (18.8 kpc) to the SW of the galaxy. Radio images of NGC6217 show an extent in the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. Pietsch , H. Arp

We report the detection of an optical jet in the nearby Seyfert 1 radio galaxy 3C 120. The optical jet coincides with the well-known radio jet and emits continuum radiation (B,V',I) with a radio-to-optical spectral index of 0.65. There are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Hjorth , M. Vestergaard , A. N. Sorensen , F. Grundahl

We report the detection of a new feature at the centre of NGC 1275 in the Perseus cluster, hosting the radio source 3C 84. This feature emerges ~ 2 mas (~ 0.8 pc) north of the central core in recent 15 and 43 GHz VLBA images, and seems to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 Yutaka Fujita , Hiroshi Nagai

We present new X-ray observations of the nucleus, jet and extended emission of the nearby radio galaxy NGC 6251 using the Chandra/ACIS-S camera, together with a reanalysis of archival Chandra/ACIS-I and XMM-Newton/EPIC data. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Evans , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw

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

The presence of optical synchrotron jets in radio galaxies is relatively rare. Here, we show that of the nearest five FR-I 3CR radio galaxies showing optical jets, {\it four} show evidence for almost circular, presumably face-on, dust…

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 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 report on the direct observation of an extended X-ray jet in the $z$=6.1 radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus PSO J030947.49+271757.31 from a deep Chandra X-ray observation (128 ksec). This detection represents the most distant kpc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 L. Ighina , A. Moretti , F. Tavecchio , A. Caccianiga , S. Belladitta , D. Dallacasa , R. Della Ceca , T. Sbarrato , C. Spingola

We present the new HST near-infrared polarimetry, broad and narrow-band imaging, and MERLIN 4.5GHz Multi-Frequency Synthesis radio imaging of 3C 293, a unique radio galaxy whose host is an obvious merger remnant, in an exceptionally…

A recent Chandra observation of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 585 has led to the discovery of an extended X-ray jet associated with the high-redshift background quasar B3 0727+409, a luminous radio source at redshift z=2.5. This is one of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 A. Simionescu , Ł. Stawarz , Y. Ichinohe , C. C. Cheung , M. Jamrozy , A. Siemiginowska , K. Hagino , P. Gandhi , N. Werner

In this paper, analytical arguments are presented that there exists a synchrotron X-ray jet on large scales in most radio-loud AGNs, based on the knowledge of the nature and physics of blazars. In blue blazars and blue-blazar-like radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Bai , Myung Gyoon Lee

We have studied the newly-discovered microquasar in NGC 7793 in radio, optical and X-ray bands. This system comprises a large (250 x 120 pc) line-emitting optical nebula, detected in H-alpha and HeII 4686. The optical nebula coincides with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Roberto Soria , Manfred Pakull , Jess Broderick , Stephane Corbel , Christian Motch

We present new {\it Chandra} observations of the radio galaxy 3C 445, centered on its southern radio hotspot. Our observations detect X-ray emission displaced upstream and to the west of the radio-optical hotspot. Attempting to reproduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Eric S. Perlman , Markos Georganopoulos , Emily M. May , Demosthenes Kazanas

We have used a deep Chandra observation of the central regions of the twin-jet FRI radio galaxy 3C31 to resolve the thermal X-ray emission in the central few kiloparsecs of the host galaxy, NGC 383, where the jets are thought to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

The large scale jet of quasar 3C 273 has been observed in radio to $\gamma$ ray frequencies. Earlier the X-ray emission from knot A of this jet has been explained with inverse Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background radiations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-01 Esha Kundu , Nayantara Gupta

With its exquisite spatial resolution of better than 0.5 arcsecond, the Chandra observatory is uniquely capable of resolving and studying the spatial structure of extragalactic X-ray jets on scales of a few to a few hundred kilo-parsec. Our…