Further Imaging of the Jets of the Black Hole XTEJ1550-564

Details Further Imaging of the Jets of the Black Hole XTEJ1550-564 Further Imaging of the Jets of the Black Hole XTEJ1550-564

Sep 2001

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Chandra Proposal ID #03408105

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #03408105

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Following our discovery of a radio jet from the black hole candidate XTEJ1550-564 (IAUC 7795), we detected X-rays from both the western and eastern jets. The western jet has a sharp peak along its leading edge (away from the BHC) and is extended along the trailing edge. The spectrum is a power law with a photon index near 1.7. The eastern jet gives the first detection of proper motion in X-rays for a jet from a black hole and proves that the jets move with relativistic speeds on large scales as hypothesized for AGN jets. The proposed observation will allow us to study the dynamics of jet/ISM interactions on time scales inaccessible for AGN jets by determining the evolution of the flux, morphology, and spectrum of the jets. We will measure the proper motion of the western jet to an accuracy of 3 mas/day which will show whether it is still travelling at relativistic speeds (the average proper motion up to March was 18 mas/day) or has reached a termination shock.

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