Variability and particle acceleration in the jet of Pictor A

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009cxo..prop.2883h&link_type=abstract

Chandra proposal ID #11700633

Computer Science

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Pictor A is one of the closest FRII radio galaxies and one of a very few to show a continuous, bright, 100-kpc-scale X-ray jet. It thus represents a crucial link between low-power FRIIs with weak discrete jet knots described by an X-ray synchrotron model and powerful core-dominated quasars whose X-ray jets are often modeled as beamed inverse-Compton. It is vital to understand the nature of the jet emission in this key object. We propose a long observation that will give us a substantial improvement in spectroscopy and imaging of the bright inner jet, and will in addition allow us to confirm the first, but so far only marginally significant detection, of variability in an FRII X-ray jet. Many additional projects can be carried out with these observations.

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