Dynamics and High Energy Emission of the Flaring HST-1 Knot in the M 87 Jet

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2006-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602220v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:981-992,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, 7 figures included. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10525.x

Stimulated by recent observations of a radio-to-X-ray synchrotron flare from HST-1, the innermost knot of the M 87 jet, as well as by a detection of a very high energy gamma-ray emission from M 87, we investigated the dynamics and multiwavelength emission of the HST-1 region. We study thermal pressure of the hot interstellar medium in M 87 and argue for a presence of a gaseous condensation in its central parts. Interaction of the jet with such a feature is likely to result in formation of a converging reconfinement shock in the innermost parts of the M 87 jet. We show that for a realistic set of the outflow parameters, a stationary and a flaring part of the HST-1 knot located \~100 pc away from the active center can be associated with the decelerated portion of the jet matter placed immediately downstream of the point where the reconfinement shock reaches the jet axis. We discuss a possible scenario explaining a broad-band brightening of the HST-1 region related to the variable activity of the central core. We show that assuming a previous epoch of the high central black hole activity resulting in ejection of excess particles and photons down along the jet, one may first expect a high-energy flare of HST-1 due to inverse-Comptonisation of the nuclear radiation, followed after a few years by an increase in the synchrotron continuum of this region. If this is the case, then the recently observed increase in the knot luminosity in all spectral bands could be regarded as an unusual echo of the outburst that had happened previously in the active core of the M 87 radio galaxy.

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