The optical jet in the quasar 3C 273.
Abstract
Various models of the optical jet in 3C 273 are discussed. The optical emission is probably due to inverse Compton scattering of infrared radiation from the quasar by a mass in excess of about 60,000,000 solar masses. It seems that the jet was relativistically ejected along the polar axis of the quasar approximately 1 million yr ago. Difficulties are encountered in applying current models of extended radio sources to the jet.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- July 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/172.1.85
- Bibcode:
- 1975MNRAS.172...85G
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Models;
- Cosmic Plasma;
- Extragalactic Radio Sources;
- Infrared Radiation;
- Light Emission;
- Quasars;
- Compton Effect;
- Electron Scattering;
- Mass Transfer;
- Plasma Jets;
- Synchrotron Radiation;
- Astrophysics