The relationship between the X-ray and radio components in the Compact Steep Spectrum Quasar 3C 48

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2003-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309737v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:632,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the MNRAS. 13 pages incl 8 figs

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07243.x

We combine results from ROSAT, Chandra, and multifrequency VLBA observations of the Compact Steep Spectrum quasar 3C 48. We infer that the X-ray spectrum of the nucleus is made up of a soft, variable, steep-spectrum component, and harder, power-law emission of slope consistent with the 1 GHz radio spectrum. The similarity of 3C 48's X-ray to radio ratio to that seen in core-dominated radio-loud quasars leads us to examine the possibility that the harder X-ray emission is inverse Compton radiation from the radio source, which is more than 99% resolved in our VLBA data. The weak (3 sigma) evidence that we find for a proper motion of 0.5\pm0.2c in a compact radio component about 0.05 arcsec from the core implies that if this component has a highly relativistic bulk motion, it is at a very small angle to the line of sight. However, stringent requirements on the jet opening angle make it unlikely that all the X-ray emission is from a fast jet which sees boosted Cosmic Microwave Background emission and emits beamed X-rays in the observer's frame. If the unusual radio structures are intrinsically one-sided and unbeamed, the inverse Compton mechanism can provide an appreciable fraction of the X-ray emission if the magnetic field strength is a factor of six to ten below that which gives equal energy in radiating relativistic particles and magnetic fields and roughly minimizes the total energy in the source. It remains possible that the unresolved X-ray emission arises from close to the central engine, either as an embedded blazar or associated with the accretion processes. (Slightly abridged).

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