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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe Highly Relativistic Kiloparsec-Scale Jet of the Gamma-Ray Quasar 0827+243
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We present Chandra X-ray (0.2-8 keV) and Very Large Array radio (15 and 5 GHz) images of the $gamma$-ray bright, superluminal quasar 0827+243. The X-ray jet bends sharply--by ~90 deg., presumably amplified by projection effects--5 from the core. Only extremely weak radio emission is detected between the nuclear region and the bend. The X-ray continuum spectrum of the combined emission of the knots is rather flat, with a slope of $-0.4pm 0.2$, while the 5-15 GHz spectra are steeper for knots detected in the radio. These characteristics, as well as non-detection of the jet in the optical band by the Hubble Space Telescope, pose challenges to models for the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the jet features. The SEDs could arise from pure synchrotron emission from either a single or dual population of relativistic electrons only if the minimum electron energy per unit mass $gamma_{min} gtrsim 1000$. Alternatively, the X-ray emission could result from inverse Compton scattering of the Cosmic Microwave Background photons by electrons with Lorentz factors as low as $gamma sim 15$. In all models, the bulk Lorentz factor of the jet flow $Gammagtrsim 20$ found on parsec scales must continue without substantial deceleration out to 800 kpc (deprojected) from the nucleus. Deceleration does appear to occur at and beyond the sharp bend, such that the flow could be only mildly relativistic at the end of the jet.
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