New Detections of Optical Emission from Kiloparsec-scale Quasar Jets

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13 December 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0212330

Abstract

We report initial results from the detection of optical emission in the arcsecond-scale radio jets of two quasars utilizing images from the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} archive. The optical emission has a very knotty appearance and is consistent with synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electrons in the jet. Combining these observations with those of previously reported features in other quasars, an emerging trend appears to be that their radio-to-optical spectral indices are steeper than those of similar features in jets of lower power radio sources.

Keywords

DETECTIONS OF OPTICAL
KILOPARSEC SCALE
OPTICAL EMISSION
NEW DETECTIONS
SCALE QUASAR
QUASAR JETS
QUASARS
RADIO

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Version 1, 2002-12-13, ArXiv
Published version: New Astronomy Reviews, 47 (6-7), 423.

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