Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-02
Astron.J.131:1914-1922,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages, 5 figures, Accepted by AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/500827
We present the results of Chandra ACIS-S snapshot observations of six radio-loud quasars (RLQs) at z=3.5-4.7. These observations sample luminous RLQs with moderate-to-high radio-loudness (R=200-9600) and aim to connect the X-ray properties of radio-quiet quasars (R<10) and highly radio-loud blazars (R>1000) at high redshift. This work extends a study by Bassett et al. (2004) which used similar methods to examine z > 4 RLQs with moderate radio-loudness (R=40-400). All of our targets are clearly detected. A search for extended X-ray emission associated with kpc-scale radio jets revealed only limited evidence for X-ray extension in our sample: three sources showed no evidence of X-ray extension, and the other three had 3-30% of their total X-ray fluxes extended >1 arcsec away from their X-ray cores. Additionally, we do not observe any systematic flattening of the optical-to-X-ray spectral index (alpha_{ox}) compared to low-redshift quasars. These results suggest that kpc-scale X-ray jet emission is not dominated by inverse-Compton scattering of CMB-seed photons off jet electrons. We measured X-ray continuum shapes and performed individual and joint spectral fits of our data combined with eight archival RLQs. A single power-law model acceptably fit the data. We added an intrinsic absorption component to our model, and neither the moderate-R nor the high-R fits set a lower bound on N_H. Our spectral results suggest that intrinsic absorption does not strongly depend on radio-loudness, and high-R sources have flatter power laws than moderate-R sources. Overall, our high-redshift RLQs have basic X-ray properties consistent with similar RLQs in the local universe.
Brandt Wiliam N.
Chartas George
Garmire Gordon P.
Lopez Laura A.
Schneider David P.
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