Variability timescale and jet power of 3C 273

Details Variability timescale and jet power of 3C 273 Variability timescale and jet power of 3C 273

Oct 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003newar..47..685k&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 47, Issue 6-7, p. 685-687.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Quasars: Individual (3C 273), Radiation Mechanisms: Nonthermal

Scientific paper

We present the results of a long-look monitoring of 3C 273 with RXTE between 1996 and 2000. A total of 230 observations amounts to a net exposure of 845 ks, with this spectral and variability analysis of 3C 273 covering the longest observation period available at hard X-ray energies. Our new observations imply that 3C 273 is a unique object whose hard X-ray emission occasionally contains a component which is not related to a beamed emission (Seyfert like), but most hard X-rays are likely to originate in inverse Compton radiation from the relativistic jet (blazar like). We consider the `power balance' (both radiative and kinetic) between the accretion disk, sub-pc-scale jet, and the 10 kpc-scale jet.

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