A Deep X-ray and Optical Look at Two Powerful Quasar Jets

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Dec 2005

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #37.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1221

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We discuss the results and implications from deep Chandra and multicolor HST observations of two jets hosted by the powerful quasars 1136--135 and 1150+497, together with new radio observations. The sources were selected from our previous X-ray/optical jet survey for detailed follow up aimed at obtaining better constraints on the jet multiwavelength morphology and X-ray and optical spectra of individual knots, and to test emission models. In 1150+497 the X-ray, optical, and radio profiles decrease in similar ways with distance from the core up to ˜ 7\arcsec, after which the radio emission increases more than the X-ray one. In 1136--135, downstream of the most prominent knot at ˜ 6.5'' from the core the X-ray emission fades while the radio emission brightens. The X-ray spectrum also varies, with the X-ray photon index flattening from Γ x ˜ 2 in the inner part to Γ x ˜ 1.7 to the end of the jet. We intepret the jet behavior in 1136--135 in a scenario where the relativistic flow suffers systematic deceleration along the jet, and briefly discuss the major consequences of this scenario.

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