The Enigmatic X-ray Jet of 3C120

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Apr 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005xrrc.proce7.16h&link_type=abstract

"X-Ray and Radio Connections (eds. L.O. Sjouwerman and K.K Dyer) Published electronically by NRAO, http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/event

Computer Science

X-Ray, Radio, Dissipation Of Jets

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Our poster focuses on the emission process(es) responsible for the X-rays from 'k25', a knot in the jet of 3C120. We argue that models using thermal, synchrotron self-Compton, and inverse-Compton/cosmic microwave background processes encounter difficulties, and that the X-rays from the k25 knot most likely come from synchrotron emission. Since the two brightest parts of k25 appear to have flat X-ray spectra, we suggest that either the shocks on the two edges of the radio knot produce a power law distribution of relativistic electrons (N(E) ∝ E^{-p}) characterized by p < 2, or that for high electron energies, there is a significant departure from the power law defined by the radio data.

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