Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures (Figure 1 is a color GIF file); accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. High resolut
Scientific paper
10.1086/322939
We report the detection at X-rays of the radio/optical jet of 3C 371, from a short (10 ks) Chandra exposure in March 2000. We also present a new MERLIN observation at 1.4 GHz together with a renalysis of the archival HST WFPC2 F555W image. Despite the limited signal-to-noise ratio of the Chandra data, the X-ray morphology is clearly different from that of the radio/optical emission, with the brightest X-ray knot at 1.7" from the nucleus and little X-ray emission from the brightest radio/optical knot at 3.1". We construct the spectral energy distributions for the two emission regions at 1.7" and 3.1". Both show that the X-ray flux is below the extrapolation from the radio-to-optical continuum, suggesting moderately beamed synchrotron from an electron population with decreasing high energy cut-off as a plausible emission mechanism.
Cheung Charlotte
Maraschi Laura
Pesce Joseph E.
Sambruna Rita M.
Scarpa Riccardo
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