Detection of optical synchrotron emission from the radio jet of 3C 279

被引：16

作者：

Cheung, CC ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02454 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2002年 / 581卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

galaxies : active; galaxies : jets; quasars : general; quasars : individual (3C 279); radio continuum : galaxies;

D O I：

10.1086/345926

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

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 Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera images, is coincident with a peak in the radio jet similar to0."6 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, and these data help to show that the high-energy optical/UV continuum and the spectrum are consistent with a synchrotron origin from the same population of relativistic electrons responsible for the radio emission.

引用

页码：L15 / L18

页数：4

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