期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 729, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/729/1/26
关键词
BL Lacertae objects: individual (OJ287); galaxies: active; galaxies: jets; radio continuum: galaxies; X-rays: galaxies
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [GO8-9097X]
- Hubble Space Telescope General Observer grant [HST-GO-11344.01-A]
- Spitzer [1326216]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [AST-0907893]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0907893] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We present an X-ray image of the BL Lacertae (BL Lac) object OJ287 revealing a long jet, curved by 55 degrees and extending 20 '', or 90 kpc from the nucleus. This de-projects to > 1Mpc based on the viewing angle on parsec scales. Radio emission follows the general X-ray morphology but extends even farther from the nucleus. The upper limit to the isotropic radio luminosity, similar to 2 x 10(24) W Hz(-1), places the source in the Fanaroff-Riley 1 (FR 1) class, as expected for BL Lac objects. The spectral energy distribution indicates that the extended X-ray emission is from inverse Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background photons. In this case, the derived magnetic field is B approximate to 5 mu G, the minimum electron energy is 7-40m(e)c(2), and the Doppler factor is delta approximate to 8 in a knot 8 '' from the nucleus. The minimum total kinetic power of the jet is (1-2) x10(45) erg s(-1). Upstream of the bend, the width of the X-ray emission in the jet is about half the projected distance from the nucleus. This implies that the highly relativistic bulk motion is not limited to an extremely thin spine, as has been proposed previously for FR 1 sources. The bending of the jet, the deceleration of the flow from parsec to kiloparsec scales, and the knotty structure can all be caused by standing shocks inclined by similar to 7 degrees to the jet axis. Moving shocks resulting from major changes in the flow properties can also reproduce the knotty structure, but such a model does not explain as many of the observational details.
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