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邻近射电星系多热点中粒子加速的Chandra研究

A Chandra study of particle acceleration in the multiple hotspots of nearby radio galaxies

M. J. Hardcastle, J. H. Croston, R. P. Kraft

摘要:

我们提出了钱德拉观测附近的经典双射电星系的一个小样本,至少在他们的一个叶有一个以上的无线电热点。从这些相对低功率物体的热点发射的X射线预计是同步辐射,因此可以提供关于高能粒子加速位置的信息。在某些喷流和热点之间关系的模型中,不是当前喷流终止点的热点应该与来自活动核的能量供应分离,因此不能将粒子加速到高能量。我们发现,事实上,一些次级热点是X射线源,因此可能的位置,为高能量粒子加速后,最初的射流终止冲击。然而,详细地说,我们表明,在X射线中看到的空间结构与简单激波模型的天真预期并不一致:在强大的射电星系中,最高能量可观测粒子的加速度的当前位置不需要与射电甚至光发射的峰值重合。

英文摘要:

We present Chandra observations of a small sample of nearby classical double radio galaxies which have more than one radio hotspot in at least one of their lobes. The X-ray emission from the hotspots of these comparatively low-power objects is expected to be synchrotron in origin, and therefore to provide information about the locations of high-energy particle acceleration. In some models of the relationship between the jet and hotspot the hotspots that are not the current jet termination point should be detached from the energy supply from the active nucleus and therefore not capable of accelerating particles to high energies. We find that in fact some secondary hotspots are X-ray sources, and thus probably locations for high-energy particle acceleration after the initial jet termination shock. In detail, though, we show that the spatial structures seen in X-ray are not consistent with naive expectations from a simple shock model: the current locations of the acceleration of the highest-energy observable particles in powerful radio galaxies need not be coincident with the peaks of radio or even optical emission.

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