The correlation of X-ray emission with strong millimeter activity in extragalactic sources
Abstract
A sample of 25 strong extragalactic millimeter sources have been observed at about 1 keV with the Imaging Proportional Counter on the Einstein X-Ray Observatory and at 90 GHz with the NRAO 11 m telescope. A strong correlation between the millimeter and X-ray flux densities is found. This result is consistent with a synchronous self-Compton model in which the X-ray emission arises from the Compton scattering of millimeter radio photons off the relativistic electrons which created them.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- November 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1086/183673
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApJ...250L..55O
- Keywords:
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- Extragalactic Radio Sources;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Quasars;
- X Ray Sources;
- Brightness Temperature;
- Compton Effect;
- Photons;
- Astronomy