Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-24
Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 33-48
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 15 figures, to appear in A&A, 420, 33 (2004)
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20041140
Relativistic jets of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce highly directed, intense beams of radiation. A fraction of this beamed radiation scatters on the thermal plasma generally surrounding an AGN. The morphology of the scattered emission can thus provide constraints on the physical properties of the jet. We present a model to study the feasibility of constraining the parameters of a jet, especially its inclination angle and bulk Lorentz factor in this way. We apply our model to the well studied jet of M87 and the surrounding diffuse gas and find that the observational limits of the surface brightness measured in the region of the putative counterjet provide the tightest constraints on the jet parameters consistent with constraints derived by other methods. We briefly discuss the applicability of our model to other sources exhibiting relativistic motions
Cramphorn Conrad
Sazonov Sergey
Sunyaev Rashid
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