What do HST and Chandra tell us about the jet and the nuclear region of the radio galaxy 3C270?

Details What do HST and Chandra tell us about the jet and the nuclear region of the radio galaxy 3C270? What do HST and Chandra tell us about the jet and the nuclear region of the radio galaxy 3C270?

2002-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205156v2

Astrophys.J. 582 (2003) 645-653

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 5 figures, in press on ApJ. Revised version, the discussion has been improved according to the requests of the refer

Scientific paper

10.1086/344690

The HST/STIS ultraviolet image of the FR I radio galaxy 3C270 shows the presence of a jet-like structure emerging from the position of the nucleus. This feature, which represents the first jet-like component ever detected in the UV in a radio galaxy with jets lying almost on the plane of the sky, has the same position angle as the jet in the radio and X-ray images. We propose two different scenarios for the origin of the emission: i) non-thermal synchrotron from a mildly relativistic component of the jet; ii) scattered light from the nucleus, where a BL Lac source may be hosted. Either of these pictures would have important consequences for the AGN unification schemes and for our knowledge of the jet structure. In the Chandra image a faint counter-jet is also present. From a comparative analysis of the HST images and Chandra X-ray spectrum, we find that the nucleus is only moderately obscured. The obscuring structure might well reside in the geometrically thin dark disk observed on large scales. This fits the scenario in which a standard geometrically and optically thick torus is not present in FR I radio galaxies.

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