Detection of Optical Synchrotron Emission from the Radio Jet of 3C279

Details Detection of Optical Synchrotron Emission from the Radio Jet of 3C279 Detection of Optical Synchrotron Emission from the Radio Jet of 3C279

2002-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210194v2

Astrophys.J. 581 (2002) L15-L18

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figs. accepted for publication in ApJL with minor revisions

Scientific paper

10.1086/345926

We report the detection of optical and ultraviolet emission from the kiloparsec scale jet of the well-known quasar 3C~279. A bright knot, discovered in archival V and U band {\it Hubble Space Telescope} Faint Object Camera images, is coincident with a peak in the radio jet $\sim0.6\arcsec$ from the nucleus. The detection was also confirmed in Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 images. Archival Very Large Array and MERLIN radio data are also analyzed which help to show that the high-energy optical/UV continuum, and spectrum, are consistent with a synchrotron origin from the same population of relativistic electrons responsible for the radio emission.

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