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Detection of an X-ray jet in 3C 371 with Chandra

arXiv:astro-ph/0106426 · doi:10.1086/322939

Abstract

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.

arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures (Figure 1 is a color GIF file); accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. High resolution (postscript) version of figure 1 at: http://www.astro.brandeis.edu/BRAG/pubs/

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