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The energy distribution of relativistic electrons in the kilo-parsec scale jet of M87 with Chandra
The X-ray emission from the jets in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) carries
important information on the distributions of relativistic electrons and
magnetic fields on large scales. We reanalyze archival Chandra observations on
the jet of M87 from 2000 to 2016 with a total exposure of 1460 kiloseconds to
explore the X-ray emission characteristics along the jet. We investigate the
variability behaviours of the nucleus and the inner jet component HST-1, and
confirm indications for day-scale X-ray variability in the nucleus
contemporaneous to the 2010 high TeV gamma-ray state. HST-1 shows a general
decline in X-ray flux over the last few years consistent with its synchrotron
interpretation. We extract the X-ray spectra for the nucleus and all knots in
the jet, showing that they are compatible with a single power-law within the
X-ray band. There are indications of the resultant X-ray photon index to
exhibit a trend, with slight but significant index variations ranging from
(e.g. in knot D) to (in the outer knots F, A, and
B). When viewed in a multi-wavelength context, a more complex situation is
arising. Fitting the radio to X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs)
assuming a synchrotron origin, we show that a broken power-law electron
spectrum with break energy around TeV allows a
satisfactorily description of the multi-band SEDs for most of the knots.
However, in the case of knots B, C and D we find indications that an additional
high energy component is needed to adequately reproduce the broadband SEDs. We
discuss the implications and suggest that a stratified jet model may account
for the differences.Comment: accepted for publication in A&
Tentative evidence of spatially extended GeV emission from SS433/W50
We analyze 10 years of Fermi-LAT data towards the SS433/W50 region. With the
latest source catalog and diffuse background models, the gamma-ray excess from
SS433/W50 is detected with a significance of 6{\sigma} in the photon energy
range of 500 MeV - 10 GeV. Our analysis indicates that an extended flat disk
morphology is preferred over a point-source description, suggesting that the
GeV emission region is much larger than that of the TeV emission detected by
HAWC. The size of the GeV emission is instead consistent with the extent of the
radio nebula W50, a supernova remnant being distorted by the jets, so we
suggest that the GeV emission may originate from this supernova remnant. The
spectral result of the GeV emission is also consistent with an supernova
remnant origin. We also derive the GeV flux upper limits on the TeV emission
region, which put moderate constrains on the leptonic models to explain the
multiwavelength data.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&
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