X-ray Emission from Jets in Centrally Obscured AGN
| dc.creator | Worrall, D. M. | |
| dc.date | 1997-09-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:24:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:24:16Z | |
| dc.description | There is good evidence for X-ray emission associated with AGN jets which are relativistically boosted towards the observer. But to what jet radius does such X-ray emission persist? To attempt to answer this question one can look at radio galaxies; their cores are sufficiently X-ray faint that any unbeamed X-ray emission in the vicinity of the central engine must be obscured. The jets of such sources are at unfavourable angles for relativistic boosting, and so their relatively weak X-ray emission must be carefully separated from the plateau of resolved X-ray emission from a hot interstellar, intragroup, or intracluster medium on which they are expected to sit. This paper presents results arguing that jet X-ray emission is generally detected in radio galaxies, even those of low intrinsic power without hot spots. The levels of emission suggest an extrapolated radio to soft X-ray spectral index, alpha_rx, of about 0.85 at parsec to perhaps kiloparsec distances from the cores. | |
| dc.description | TeX, 6 pages, 8 PostScript figures included, using macros lecproc.cmm and epsf.sty, included. To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference ``Relativistic Jets in AGNs'', Cracow, May 1997 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709165 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709165 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11553 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | X-ray Emission from Jets in Centrally Obscured AGN | |
| dc.type | text |