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Detection of Optical Synchrotron Emission from the Radio Jet of 3C279

arXiv:astro-ph/0210194 · doi:10.1086/345926

Abstract

We report the detection of optical and ultraviolet emission from the kiloparsec scale jet of the well-known quasar 3C~279. A bright knot, discovered in archival V and U band {\it Hubble Space Telescope} Faint Object Camera images, is coincident with a peak in the radio jet $\sim0.6\arcsec$ from the nucleus. The detection was also confirmed in Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 images. Archival Very Large Array and MERLIN radio data are also analyzed which help to show that the high-energy optical/UV continuum, and spectrum, are consistent with a synchrotron origin from the same population of relativistic electrons responsible for the radio emission.

6 pages, 3 figs. accepted for publication in ApJL with minor revisions

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