X-ray Emission From Powerful Quasar Jets:Testing The Synchrotron Interpretation

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Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006head....9.0906g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #9.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.363

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The nature of the Chandra-detected X-ray emission from the extended jets of powerful quasars is a matter of ongoing debate. Two main contenders, requiring very different physical conditions, are external Compton (EC) scattering off the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and synchrotron emission from a population of electrons separate from that producing the radio - IR emission. So far, no clear diagnostics have been presented to distinguish between the two. Here we present such a test, along with a consequence of the synchrotron interpretation. They are both based on the fact that the production of synchrotron X-rays requires 100 TeV electrons.

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