BULK COMPTONIZATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND BY EXTRAGALACTIC JETS AS A PROBE OF THEIR MATTER CONTENT
@article{Georganopoulos2005BULKCO, title={BULK COMPTONIZATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND BY EXTRAGALACTIC JETS AS A PROBE OF THEIR MATTER CONTENT}, author={Markos Georganopoulos and Demosthenes Kazanas and Eric S. Perlman and Floyd W. Stecker}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2005}, volume={625}, pages={656-666} }
We propose a method for estimating the composition, i.e. the relative amounts of leptons and protons, of extragalactic jets which exhibit Chandra - detected knots in their kpc scale jets. The method relies on measuring, or setting upper limits on, the component of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation that is bulk-Comptonized by the cold electrons in the relativistically flowing jet. These measurements, along with modeling of the broadband knot emission that constrain the bulk Lorentz…
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