X-Ray Emission from the Optical Jet of the Radio Galaxy 3c 66B: Testing Theories of Particle Acceleration

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Sep 1999

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Chandra Proposal ID #01700411

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #01700411

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Synchrotron radiation at optical and X-ray wavebands provides important constraints on the location and nature of particle and acceleration processes in jets; X-ray jets are particularly important because of the very short synchrotron lifetimes of X-ray emitting electrons. Only two such jets are known, in the nearby (and atypical) sources M87 and Cen A. Here we propose observations which we expect to detect an X-ray jet in the archetypal twin-jet radio galaxy 3C 66B, known to have an optical jet. AXAF's spatial resolution is critical for this project; using it, we will be able to locate the sites of X-ray emission and thus strongly constrain or reject models in which particles are accelerated at the knots in the jet, thought to correspond to internal shocks.

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