Multiwavelength study of Cygnus A - II. X-ray inverse-Compton emission from a relic counterjet and implications for jet duty cycles

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 388, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1465-1472

  Steenbrugge, Katrien C ^a   Blundell, Katherine M ^b   Duffy, Peter ^c  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual: Cygnus A; Galaxies: jets

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; EXPANSION; GALAXIES; LIFE CYCLE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; TRAVEL TIME; X RAY SCATTERING;

'CURRENT; COUNTER-JET; DUTY-CYCLE; GALAXIES ACTIVE; GALAXIES JETS; GALAXIES: INDIVIDUALS; GALAXY: INDIVIDUAL: CYGNI A; INVERSE COMPTON; LORENTZ FACTOR; X-RAY EMISSION;

SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

EID: 49249136857     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13412.x     Document Type: Article

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