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We find that energy losses due to synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission in blazar jets can produce distinctive signatures in the time-averaged synchrotron and SSC spectra of these objects. For a fairly broad range of particle injection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Chiang , Markus Boettcher

Context: The relation between Galactic cosmic-ray electrons, magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation. Aims: We exploit synchrotron radiation to constrain the low-energy interstellar electron spectrum, using various radio surveys and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , T. R. Jaffe

We have completed a Chandra snapshot survey of 54 radio jets that are extended on arcsec scales. These are associated with flat spectrum radio quasars spanning a redshift range z=0.3 to 2.1. X-ray emission is detected from the jet of…

Evidence for nonthermal activity in clusters of galaxies is well established from radio observations of synchrotron emission by relativistic electrons, and new windows (in EUV and Hard X-ray ranges) have provided more powerful tools for its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahe' Petrosian

Protostellar jets and outflows are pointers of star-formation and serve as important sources of momentum and energy transfer to the interstellar medium. Radio emission from ionized jets have been detected towards a number of protostellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Sreelekshmi Mohan , Sarita Vig , Samir Mandal

We present ~400ks NuSTAR observations of the northeast (NE) and southwest (SW) non-thermal limbs of the Galactic SNR SN1006. We discovered three sources with X-ray emission detected at >50keV. Two of them are identified as background AGN.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Jiang-Tao Li , Jean Ballet , Marco Miceli , Ping Zhou , Jacco Vink , Yang Chen , Fabio Acero , Anne Decourchelle , Joel N. Bregman

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

In this paper we develop the jet model of Potter & Cotter (2012) to include a magnetically dominated accelerating parabolic base transitioning to a slowly decelerating conical jet with a geometry set by recent radio observations of M87. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

The W50 nebula around microquasar SS~433, powered by supercritical accretion, features two `extended jets' (tens of pc long and a few pc wide) from which polarized X-ray and very high energy radiation above 100 TeV is detected. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-15 A. M. Bykov , S. M. Osipov , V. I. Romansky , Y. A. Uvarov , E. Churazov , I. Khabibullin

Using XMM we detect faint unresolved X-ray emission from the Compact Steep Spectrum radio galaxy 3C303.1. We detect a thermal component at kT = 0.8 keV which seems likely to be produced in the ISM of the host galaxy. There is evidence for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. O'Dea , B. Mu , D. Worrall , J. Kastner , S. Baum , W. De Vries

Continuum low-frequency radio observations of the Galactic Center reveal the presence of two prominent radio sources, Sgr A East and its surrounding Halo, containing non-thermal particle distributions with power-law indices around 2.5-3.3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Fulvio Melia , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Marco Fatuzzo

We study the synchrotron radiation as the observed non-thermal X-ray emission from old pulsars ($\gtrsim1-10$Myr) to investigate the particle acceleration in their magnetospheres. We assume that the power-law component of the observed X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shota Kisaka , Shuta J. Tanaka

With new calibration data, thermal emission from the jet of radio galaxy M87 is studied with about 700 ks archival data with Chandra. For nucleus, HST-1, knot D, X-ray energy spectra is well fitted with a power law. However, For knot A, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-25 S. Osone

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 calculate the fluxes of radio, hard X-rays and gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies, in the context of a secondary electron model (SEM). In the SEM the radiating electrons are produced by the decay of charged pions in cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Blasi , S. Colafrancesco

Synchrotron radiation and Compton scattering are widely accepted as the most likely emission mechanisms of some astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The measurement on polarization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-18 Zhe Chang , Hai-Nan Lin , Yunguo Jiang

The VLBI observations at 22 GHz and 43 GHz of the quasar 3C273 obtained during a multi-frequency campaign in late 1992 in the radio, millimetre and X-ray bands allow us to derive the components' angular sizes, their peak fluxes and turnover…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Mantovani , W. Junor , I. M. McHardy , C. Valerio

Centaurus A (Cen~A) is the nearest active radio galaxy, which has kiloparsec (kpc) scale jets and {giant lobes detected by various instruments in radio and X-ray frequency ranges}. The $Fermi$--Large Area Telescope and High Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Kazuhisa Tanada , Jun Kataoka , Yoshiyuki Inoue

Recent observations of excess radiation at extreme ultraviolet and hard X-ray energies straddling the well known thermal soft X-ray emission have provided new tools and puzzles for investigation of the acceleration of nonthermal particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahé Petrosian

Jets are ubiquitous in the star-forming process since accretion is intimately associated with outflow. Weak free-free continuum emission in the centimeter domain is associated with these jets. Observations in the cm range are most useful to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-22 Guillem Anglada , Luis F. Rodriguez , Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez