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We report X-ray imaging of the powerful FR-II radio galaxy 3C353 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 3C353's two 4"-wide and 2'-long jets allow us to study in detail the internal structure of the large-scale relativistic outflows at both…

We present three new Chandra X-ray epochs along with new ground-based optical-UV observations as the third installment in a time-series analysis of four high-redshift ($z\sim4.1-4.4$) radio-quiet quasars (RQQs). In total, we present nine…

X-ray observations provide a unique probe of the accretion disk corona of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this paper, we present a uniform \emph{Chandra} X-ray data analysis of a sample of 152 $z\geq4.5$ quasars. We firmly detect 46…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Jiang-Tao Li , Feige Wang , Jinyi Yang , Joel N. Bregman , Xiaohui Fan , Yuchen Zhang

This letter reports rich X-ray jet structures found in the Chandra observation of PKS 1055+201. In addition to an X-ray jet coincident with the radio jet we detect a region of extended X-ray emission surrounding the jet as far from the core…

The complex X-ray morphology of the 300 kpc long X-ray jet in PKS1127-145 (z=1.18 quasar) is clearly discerned in a ~100 ksec Chandra observation. The jet X-ray surface brightness gradually decreases by an order of magnitude going out from…

We report the results of a 15 GHz (2 cm) multi-epoch VLBA program, begun in 1994 to study the outflow in radio jets ejected from quasars and active galaxies. The observed flow of 208 distinct features measured in 110 quasars, active…

Highly radio-loud quasars (HRLQs; $\log R>2.5$) at $z\gtrsim 4$ show apparent enhanced X-ray emission compared to matched HRLQs at lower redshifts, perhaps due to a redshift-dependent fractional contribution to the X-ray luminosity from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Zihao Zuo , Shifu Zhu , W. N. Brandt , Gordon P. Garmire , F. Vito , Jianfeng Wu , Yongquan Xue

We observed 17 optically-selected, radio-quiet high-redshift quasars with the Chandra Observatory ACIS, and detected 16 of them. The quasars have redshift between 3.70 and 6.28 and include the highest redshift quasars known. When compared…

We report new Chandra observations of seven optically faint, z \sim 4 radio-quiet quasars. We have combined these new observations with previous Chandra observations of radio-quiet quasars to create a sample of 174 sources. These sources…

The Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered dozens of resolved, kiloparsec-scale jets associated with powerful quasars in which the X-ray fluxes are observed to be much higher than the expected level based on the radio-optical synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Eileen T. Meyer , Markos Georganopoulos , William B. Sparks , Leith Godfrey , James E. J. Lovell , Eric Perlman

The interactions between radio jets and the interstellar medium play a defining role for the co-evolution of central supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, but observational constraints on these feedback processes are still very…

We present a detailed analysis of the best-quality multi-wavelength data gathered for the large-scale jet in the core-dominated quasar 3C 273. We analyze all the archival observations of the target with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Volodymyr Marchenko , D. E. Harris , Michal Ostrowski , Lukasz Stawarz , Artem Bohdan , Marek Jamrozy , Bohdan Hnatyk

The flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) are a sub-class of blazars characterised by prominent optical emission lines and a collimated large-scale jet along the observer line of sight. An X-ray spectral flattening has been reported in FSRQs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Haritma Gaur , Prashanth Mohan , Ashwani Pandey

Radio-bright, jetted quasars at $z>5$ serve as unique laboratories for studying supermassive black hole activity in the early Universe. In this work, we present a sample of high-$z$ jetted quasars selected from the combination of the radio…

We present results for the first three low-power radio galaxies from the B2 bright sample to have been observed with Chandra. Two have kpc-scale radio jets, and in both Chandra resolves jet X-ray emission, and detects soft X-ray core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , M. J. Hardcastle

Emission from the relativistic jet located at hundreds of kpc from the core of the superluminal quasar PKS 0637-752 was detected at 3.6 and 5.8 microns with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The unprecedented…

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 combine results from ROSAT, Chandra, and multifrequency VLBA observations of the Compact Steep Spectrum quasar 3C 48. We infer that the X-ray spectrum of the nucleus is made up of a soft, variable, steep-spectrum component, and harder,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Worrall , M. J. Hardcastle , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead

The prominent radio quasar PKS 2215+020 (J2217+0220) was once labelled as a new laboratory for core--jet physics at redshift z=3.572 because of its exceptionally extended jet structure traceable with very long baseline interferometric…

We discuss morphological properties of the large-scale jets in powerful radio sources, which are now observed at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies, in order to determine the origin of their X-ray radiation and the nature of the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Stawarz , M. Sikora , M. Ostrowski , M. C. Begelman
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