CHANDRA Observations of X-ray Jet Structure on kpc to Mpc Scales

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2003-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306317v1

New Astron.Rev. 47 (2003) 461-465

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the Bologna jet workshop, "The Physics of Relativistic Jets in the C

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1387-6473(03)00072-1

With its exquisite spatial resolution of better than 0.5 arcsecond, the Chandra observatory is uniquely capable of resolving and studying the spatial structure of extragalactic X-ray jets on scales of a few to a few hundred kilo-parsec. Our analyses of four recent Chandra images of quasar jets interpret the X-ray emission as inverse Compton scattering of high energy electrons on the cosmic microwave background. We infer that these jets are in bulk relativistic motion, carrying kinetic powers upwards of 10^46 ergs/s to distances of hundreds of kpc, with very high efficiency.

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