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类星体PKS 0637-752的HST观测:迄今为止最完整光谱覆盖的均分电子质子喷流

HST observations of the quasar PKS 0637-752: equipartition electron-proton jet from the most complete spectral coverage to date

Kushal T. Mehta, Markos Georganopoulos, Eric S. Perlman, Charles A. Padgett, George Chartas

摘要:

我们提出了新的NICMOS和ACS观测的类星体喷流PKS 0637-752,我们使用它们,连同现有的多波长观测,以产生最完整的光谱覆盖的源日期。我们探讨这些意见的背景下,模型的喷气X射线发射的影响。通过放松均分假设,我们进行了详尽的研究外康普顿关闭CMB(EC/CMB)模型的参数空间。我们发现多波长观测排除了磁场主导的喷流。使用Georganopoulos等人(2005)提出的探测喷流物质含量的方法,我们发现几乎所有的喷流构型都需要质子,扩展了内山等人(2005)以前基于探索三种特定喷流构型的方法的应用。我们还表明,均分是唯一的配置,可以重现的意见,并有一个质子辐射轻子。最后,我们提出了一个相当独立的模型的论点,射流有一个脊柱鞘流模式,脊柱更快,发射大部分的红外光学X射线发射。

英文摘要:

We present new NICMOS and ACS observations of the quasar jet PKS 0637-752, and we use them, together with existing multiwavelength observations, to produce the most complete spectral coverage of the source to date. We explore the implications of these observations in the context of models for the jet X-ray emission. By relaxing the assumption of equipartition, we undertake an exhaustive study of the parameter space for external Compton off the CMB (EC/CMB) model. We find that the multiwavelength observations exclude a magnetic field dominated jet. Using the method proposed by Georganopoulos et al. (2005) for probing the jet matter content we show that protons are needed for practically all jet configurations, extending a previous application of the method by Uchiyama et al. (2005) that was based on exploring three particular jet configurations. We also show that equipartition is the only configuration that can reproduce the observations and have one proton per radiating lepton. We finally present a rather model - independent argument that the jet has a spine-sheath flow pattern, with the spine being faster and emitting most of the IR-optical-X-ray emission.

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