Diffuse X-ray emission from the jets of SS 433

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Oct 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980natur.287..806s&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 287, Oct. 30, 1980, p. 806-808.

Physics

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Supernova Remnants, X Ray Sources, Diffuse Radiation, Heao, Periodic Variations

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The detection of large-scale diffuse X-ray jets from the variable-emission-line object SS 433 is reported. Observations were made with the high resolution imager and imaging proportional counter on board the Einstein X-ray Observatory. The two diffuse X-ray features discovered are found to be aligned with both the central source of SS 433 and with the bulges of the shell of the huge supernova remnant W 50 associated with SS 433, thus confirming the detection of jets related to SS 433 and the link between SS 433 and W 50, establishing a minimum age of 1000 years for the jet phenomenon and offering an explanation of the size of W 50. Processes by which two oppositely directed beams of material from the SS 433 source region may emit the diffuse X-rays are then considered, including shock heating by interactions with the ambient medium and synchrotron radiation. Similarities between the morphologies of the diffuse X-ray emission and those of radio galaxies are also noted.

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