Imaging Relativistic Outflows from Quasars using the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Herman L. Marshall
Tue Jan 17, 02-02:30pm, Marlar: 37-252
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One of the first discoveries made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory was finding very strong X-ray emission from quasar jets, millions of light years from the central black holes. Jets are highly focused outflows of magnetized plasma that are moving at nearly the speed of light on a scale of light years from the supermassive black holes that inhabit the cores of many active galaxies and their bright counterparts, the quasars. The jet can transport a huge fraction of the total energy liberated by matter infalling onto the black hole out into intergalactic space. With Chandra images of the X-rays from jets, we infer that the flow is still highly relativistic even as the plasma exits the host galaxy's gravitational influence.
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Sponsor: Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Latest update: 09-Dec-2011
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