Particle acceleration in the M87 jet

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2002-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212365v1

New Astron.Rev. 47 (2003) 505-507

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages; to appear in New Astronomy Reviews, in proceedings of the meeting "The Physics of Relativistic Jets in the CHANDRA an

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1387-6473(03)00081-2

The wealth of high quality data now available on the M87 jet inspired us to carry out a detailed analysis of the plasma physical conditions in the jet. In a companion paper (Lobanov, Hardee & Eilek, this proceedings) we identify a double-helix structure within the jet, and apply Kelvin-Helmholtz stability analysis to determine the physical state of the jet plasma. In this paper we treat the jet as a test case for in situ particle acceleration. We find that plasma turbulence is likely to exist at levels which can maintain the energy of electrons radiating in the radio to optical range, consistent with the broadband spectrum of the jet.

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