The Knotty Question of the Jet of PKS B1421–490
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2005-10-04
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J. M. Gelbord, H. L. Marshall, D. M. Worrall, M. Birkinshaw, J. E. J. Lovell, R. Ojha, L. Godfrey, D. A. Schwartz, E. S. Perlman, M. Georganopoulos, D. W. Murphy, and D. L. Jauncey, The Knotty Question of the Jet of PKS B1421–490,The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 632, Number 2,https://doi.org/10.1086%2F497823
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We report the discovery of unusually strong optical and X-ray emission associated with a knot in the radio jet of PKS B1421-490. The knot is the brightest feature observed beyond the radio band, with knot/core flux ratios ~300 and 3.7 at optical and X-ray frequencies, respectively. We interpret the extreme optical output of the knot as synchrotron emission. The nature of the X-ray emission is unclear. We consider a second synchrotron component, inverse Compton emission from a relativistic, decelerating jet, and the possibility that this feature is a chance superposition of an unusual BL Lac object.