Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992aipc..254..455r&link_type=abstract
In: Testing the AGN paradigm; Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Topical Astrophysics Conference, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Oc
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
6
Anisotropy, Compton Effect, Inverse Scattering, Radio Jets (Astronomy), Relativistic Particles, Synchrotron Radiation, Angular Distribution, Optical Thickness, X Ray Sources
Scientific paper
We consider various forms of anisotropy in the angular distributions of relativistic electrons and photons in a jet with bulk relativistic velocity. Even if electrons are isotropic in a frame moving with some velocity, at optically thin frequencies (which dominate the radiation energy density) the synchrotron radiation field is not isotropic in that or any other frame, for most jet models. We exhibit the angular dependence of the synchrotron radio emission and inverse-Compton X-ray emission for simple jet models, and show that even for these oversimplified cases the assumption that this angular dependence can be described as some power of the Doppler factor is rather poor, for any value of that power. In addition, the X-ray flux does not have the same angular distribution as the radio flux, but is somewhat broader.
Ellison Donald C.
Reynolds Stephen P.
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