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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 on the {\it Chandra} discovery of large scale non--thermal emission features in the double lobed SSRL quasar 3C 207 (z=0.684). These are: a diffuse emission well correlated with the western radio lobe, a bright one sided jet whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Brunetti , M. Bondi , A. Comastri , G. Setti

The radio galaxy 3C 273 hosts one of the nearest and best-studied powerful quasar jets. Having been imaged repeatedly by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) over the past twenty years, it was chosen for an HST program to measure proper motions…

We present new, high dynamic range VLA images of the inner jet of the closest radio galaxy, Centaurus A. Over a ten-year baseline we detect apparent sub-luminal motions (v ~ 0.5c) in the jet on scales of hundreds of pc. The inferred speeds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall , R. P. Kraft , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , S. S. Murray

Very Large Telescope adaptive optics images of NGC 253 with resolutions down to 200 mas resolve the central 300 pc of this galaxy in ~ 37 infrared (IR) bright knots, a factor of 3 larger than previously reported, and extended diffuse…

We report the discovery of X-ray emission from a radio knot at a projected distance of 25" from the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy, 3C 120. The data were obtained with the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). Optical upper limits for the knot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Harris , J. Hjorth , A. C. Sadun , J. D. Silverman , M. Vestergaard

We present the first high resolution X-ray image of the jet in M 87 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. There is clear structure in the jet and almost all of the optically bright knots are detected individually. The unresolved core is the…

We present results from deep (70 ks) Chandra ACIS observations and Hubble Space Telescope ACS F475W observations of two highly optically polarized quasars belonging to the MOJAVE blazar sample, viz., PKS B0106+013 and 1641+399 (3C345).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Preeti Kharb , Matthew Lister , Herman Marshall , Brandon Hogan

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Harris

We report the discovery of unusually strong optical and X-ray emission associated with a knot in the radio jet of PKS B1421-490. The knot is the brightest feature observed beyond the radio band, with knot/core flux ratios \~300 and 3.7 at…

Using long slit emission-line spectra we detect a fast outflow of ionized gas, with velocities up to 1000 km/s, in the nearby powerful radio galaxy 3C 293 (z = 0.045). The fast outflow is located about 1 kpc east of the nucleus, in a region…

We present three rare and striking extragalactic radio sources discovered through visual inspection of low-frequency continuum maps from LoTSS DR2 and TGSS by the RAD@home citizen-science collaboratory. The first, RAD J131346.9+500320, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Ananda Hota , Pratik Dabhade , Prasun Machado , Joydeep Das , Aarti Muley , Arundhati Purohit

The acceleration and radiative processes active in low-power radio hotspots are investigated by means of new deep near-infrared (NIR) and optical VLT observations, complemented with archival, high-sensitivity VLT, radio VLA and X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 G. Migliori , M. Orienti , L. Coccato , G. Brunetti , F. D'Ammando , K. -H. Mack , M. A. Prieto

Using a large set of optically detected hotspots in powerful extragalactic double radio sources, we examine the basic question of whether the detection of optical synchrotron radiation requires in-situ acceleration of relativistic electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gopal-Krishna , Prasad Subramanian , Paul J. Wiita , Peter A. Becker

We present the first results from an X-ray and optical survey of a sample of AGN radio jets with Chandra and HST. We focus here on the first six sources observed at X-rays, in four of which a bright X-ray jet was detected for the first…

In this letter we report a Chandra X-ray detection of the double northern hot spot of the radio quasar 3C 351. The hot spot has also been observed in the optical with the Hubble Space Telescope (R-band) and with the 3.5m. Telescopio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Brunetti , M. Bondi , A. Comastri , M. Pedani , S. Varano , G. Setti , M. J. Hardcastle

A newly identified kiloparsec-scale X-ray jet in the high-redshift z=3.89 quasar 1745+624 is studied with multi-frequency Very Large Array, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray imaging data. This is only the third large-scale X-ray jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. C. Cheung , L. Stawarz , A. Siemiginowska

By summing a large number of ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI) observations of the variable radio galaxy 3C 390.3, we demonstrate that the X-ray emission associated with the northern radio lobe (reported by Prieto 1997) can be identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. E. Harris , K. M. Leighly , J. P. Leahy

We present multi--frequency radio observational results of the quasar 3C~48. The observations were carried out with the Very Large Array (VLA) at five frequencies of 0.33, 1.5, 4.8, 8.4, and 22.5 GHz, and with the Multi--Element Radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. X. Feng , T. An , X. Y. Hong , Jun-Hui Zhao , T. Venturi , Z. -Q. Shen , W. H. Wang

We report an optical/UV jet and counterjet in M84, previously unreported in archival HST imaging. With archival VLA, ALMA, and Chandra imaging, we examine the first well-sampled spectral energy distribution of the inner jet of M84, where we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Eileen T. Meyer , Maria Petropoulou , Markos Georganopoulos , Marco Chiaberge , Peter Breiding , William B. Sparks