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Jul 2002
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HST Proposal ID #9494
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Hst Proposal Id #9494
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The total number of well-established extragalactic jets is less than twenty, and of these only a handful are blazars. We propose here to use ACS {one orbit} to image in three bands the newly discovered optical jet in the BL Lac object MH 2136-428. This is the first time that an optical jet has been discovered in a completely featureless blazar, that is in an object whose nucleus is particularly highly beamed and/or whose accretion disk power is extremely low. Moreover, our source has a radio flux more than an order of magnitude fainter than those typical of the other blazars with optical jets, allowing us to study an intrinsically weaker jet. Our goals include the study of the jet morphology, its spectral energy distribution, and the relationship between the jet properties in blazar and non-blazar sources, extremely relevant for unified schemes. Only HST can provide the resolution required to study such a faint, narrow feature, close to the bright nucleus. We are also asking for 10ks of Chandra observing time to further constrain the jet spectral energy distribution and its underlying emission processes.
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