DEEP MULTIWAVEBAND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JETS OF 0208-512 AND 1202-262

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Perlman, Eric S.; Georganopoulos, Markos; Schwartz, Daniel A.; Padgett, C. A.; Gelbord, Jonathan; ... Show more
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We present deep Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra, Very Large Array, and Australia Telescope Compact Array images of the jets of PKS 0208-512 and PKS 1202-262, which were found in a Chandra survey of a flux-limited sample of flat-spectrum radio quasars with jets. We discuss in detail their X-ray morphologies and spectra. We find optical emission from one knot in the jet of PKS 1202-262 and two regions in the jet of PKS 0208-512. The X-ray emission of both jets is most consistent with external Comptonization of cosmic microwave background photons by particles within the jet, while the optical emission is most consistent with the synchrotron process. We model the emission from the jet in this context and discuss implications for jet emission models, including magnetic field and beaming parameters.
Date issued
2011-09
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95717
Department
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Citation
Perlman, Eric S., Markos Georganopoulos, Herman L. Marshall, Daniel A. Schwartz, C. A. Padgett, Jonathan Gelbord, J. E. J. Lovell, et al. “DEEP MULTIWAVEBAND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JETS OF 0208-512 AND 1202-262.” The Astrophysical Journal 739, no. 2 (September 7, 2011): 65. © 2011 The American Astronomical Society
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0004-637X
1538-4357
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