Discovery of a Jetlike Structure at the High-Redshift QSO CXOMP J084128.3+131107 | Zendy

D. A. Schwartz | Zendy; J. D. Silverman | Zendy; M. Birkinshaw | Zendy; Margarita Karovska | Zendy; Thomas L. Aldcroft | Zendy; W. A. Barkhouse | Zendy; Paul Green | Zendy; Dong Wook Kim | Zendy; B. J. Wilkes | Zendy; D. M. Worrall | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Discovery of a Jetlike Structure at the High-Redshift QSO CXOMP J084128.3+131107

Author(s) -

D. A. Schwartz,

J. D. Silverman,

M. Birkinshaw,

Margarita Karovska,

Thomas L. Aldcroft,

W. A. Barkhouse,

Paul Green,

Dong Wook Kim,

B. J. Wilkes,

D. M. Worrall

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/420843

Subject(s) - astrophysics , physics , redshift , cosmic microwave background , point source , quasar , jet (fluid) , cosmic cancer database , compton scattering , astronomy , galaxy , scattering , optics , anisotropy , thermodynamics

The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) has discovered a jet-likestructure associated with a newly recognized QSO at redshift z=1.866. Thesystem was 9.4 arcmin off-axis during an observation of 3C 207. Althoughsignificantly distorted by the mirror PSF, we use both a raytrace and a nearbybright point source to show that the X-ray image must arise from somecombination of point and extended sources, or else from a minimum of threedistinct point sources. We favor the former situation, as three unrelatedsources would have a small probability of occurring by chance in such a closealignment. We show that interpretation as a jet emitting X-rays via inverseCompton (IC) scattering on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is plausible.This would be a surprising and unique discovery of a radio-quiet QSO with anX-ray jet, since we have obtained upper limits of 100 microJy on the QSOemission at 8.46 GHz, and limits of 200 microJy for emission from the putativejet.Comment: 12 pages including 4 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJ Letter

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research