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We present near-infrared [Fe II] images of four Class 0/I jets (HH 1/2, HH 34, HH 111, HH 46/47) observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3. The unprecedented angular resolution allows us to measure proper motions, jet…

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

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 new results from an HST archival program to study proper motions in the optical jet of the nearby radio galaxy M87. Using over 13 years of archival imaging, we reach accuracies below 0.1c in measuring the apparent velocities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eileen T. Meyer , W. B. Sparks , J. A. Biretta , Jay Anderson , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Roeland P. van der Marel , Colin Norman , Masanori Nakamura

We present HST observations of previously undetected optical jets in the low-luminosity radio galaxies B2 0755+37 and B2 1553+24. We show that there is accurate spatial coincidence between optical and radio emission, implying that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Parma , H. R. de Ruiter , A. Capetti , R. Fanti , R. Morganti , M. Bondi , R. A. Laing , J. R. Canvin

We investigate the brightest regions of the kpc-scale jet in the powerful radio galaxy 3C 346, using new optical HST ACS/F606W polarimetry together with Chandra X-ray data and 14.9 GHz and 22.5 GHz VLA radio polarimetry. The jet shows a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Dulwich , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , C. A. Padgett , E. S. Perlman

We present results from four recent Chandra monitoring observations of the jet in 3C 273 using the ACIS detector, obtained between November 2003 and July 2004. We find that the X-ray emission comes in two components: unresolved knots that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. L. Marshall , S. Jester , D. E. Harris , K. Meisenheimer

We present measurements of proper motion of the sub-parsec scale jet at 22 GHz in the nearby FR I galaxy 3C 66B. Observations were made using the VLBA at six epochs over four years. A phase-referencing technique was used to improve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Hiroshi Sudou , Satoru Iguchi , Guang-Yao Zhao

Since the discovery of kiloparsec-scale X-ray emission from quasar jets, the physical processes responsible for their high-energy emission have been poorly defined. A number of mechanisms are under active debate, including synchrotron…

ROSAT HRI observations of 3C 273 reveal X-ray emission all along the optically visible jet with the peak of emission at the inner end. Whereas the X-ray emission from the innermost knot A is consistent with a continuation of the…

Context: Few Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) reveal a double sided jet system. However, these are crucial to understand basic physical properties of extragalactic jets. Aims: We address the questions whether jets in AGN are symmetric in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 A. -K. Baczko , R. Schulz , M. Kadler , E. Ros , M. Perucho , C. M. Fromm , J. Wilms

We present an overview of new HST imaging polarimetry of six nearby radio galaxies with optical jets. These observations triple the number of extragalactic jets with subarcsecond-resolution optical polarimetry. We discuss the polarization…

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

Jets from active galactic nuclei are thought to play a role in the evolution of their host and local environments, but a detailed prescription is limited by the understanding of the jets themselves. Proper motion studies of compact bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-21 Agniva Roychowdhury , Eileen T. Meyer , Markos Georganopoulos , Kassidy Kollmann

The counter jet of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) has not yet been observed, while recent discoveries of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 and the associated sGRB 170817A have demonstrated that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

The mechanism and the region of generation of variable continuum emission are poorly understood for radio-loud AGN because of a complexity of the nuclear region. High-resolution radio VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. G. Arshakian , J. Leon-Tavares , A. P. Lobanov , V. H. Chavushyan , A. I. Shapovalova , A. N. Burenkov , J. A. Zensus

We show that the standard Blandford-K\"onigl model for compact conical relativistic jets has a peculiar feature: at a given observed frequency of radiation, the emission from the approaching jet arrives at the location of a distant observer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Thomas J. Maccarone , Eli C. Pattie , Alexandra J. Tetarenko

The broadband afterglow of GW170817/GRB 170817A is believed to be from an off-axis structured jet. The central engine of a gamma-ray burst usually launches a pair of outflows that move oppositely, it is reasonable to consider the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Long-Biao Li , Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang , Bing Li

The emission mechanisms in extragalactic jets include synchrotron and various inverse-Compton processes. At low (radio through infrared) energies, it is widely agreed that synchrotron emission dominates in both low-power (FR I) and…

We present images from five observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The jet has at least four distinct features which are not resolved in previous observations. The first knot in the jet (A1) is very bright in…