Hubble Space Telescope and VLA observations of two optical continuum knots in the jet of 3C 380

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作者
O'Dea, CP
De Vries, W
Biretta, JA
Baum, SA
机构
[1] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[2] Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Astron Inst, NL-9700 AB Groningen, Netherlands
关键词
galaxies : active; galaxies : jets; quasars : individual (3C 380);
D O I
10.1086/300758
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present Nubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 broadband red and linear ramp filter (isolating redshifted [O II] lambda 3727) observations and subarcsecond-resolution 15, 22, and 43 GHz VLA observations of the radio-loud quasar 3C 380. We confirm the report of de Vries et ai. that there is good correspondence between the locations of two optical and radio knots/hot spots in the jet. We show that the optical knots are continuum rather than line emission. The radio-optical spectrum can be fitted either by a normal radio spectrum (alpha similar to -0.8) with a break somewhere in the infrared or by a steeper single power law (alpha similar to -1) (where S-v proportional to v(alpha)). We suggest that the two knots are radiating optical synchrotron emission. This would make the knots in 3C 380 the most luminous optical knots/hot spots currently known.
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