The Extended X-ray Structure of a New Population of Blazars

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Sep 2004

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Chandra Proposal ID #06700474

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Chandra Proposal Id #06700474

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We have recently discovered a population of strong-lined blazars with jet synchrotron emission peaks in the UV/soft-X-ray regime. So far, only radio quasars with lower synchrotron energy cut-offs (and so X-rays dominated by inverse Compton emission) were known. Our discovery challenges theories which posit that particle cooling by an external radiation field, such as the one produced by, e.g., an accretion disk, controls the frequency position of the jet synchrotron energy cut-off. We propose to image with ACIS six of the newly discovered blazars in order to compare for the first time their extended X-ray morphology to that of classical radio quasars and to reliably determine if the X-rays in the cores of these sources are indeed produced by the synchrotron mechanism.

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