Pair Plasma Dominance in the 3C 279 Jet on Parsec Scales

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Apr 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999pasj...51..263h&link_type=abstract

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, v.51, p.263-267.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Radio, Quasars: Individual (3C 279)

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We have investigated whether a pc-scale jet of 3C 279 is dominated by a normal plasma or an electron--positron plasma. By analyzing Very Long Baseline Interferometry data between 1983 and 1990, and utilizing the theory of synchrotron self-absorption, we have derived the lower limits for the proper electron number density. Comparing the lower limit with another independent constraint for the electron density that is deduced from the kinetic luminosity, we find that the core and components C3 and C4 are likely dominated by an electron--positron plasma.

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