Powerful Radio Galaxies with Simbol-X: Lobes and Hot Spots

Journal Article · Mon May 11 04:00:00 EDT 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3149400· OSTI ID:21304874

Migliori, G ^[1]; Grandi, P; Raimondi, L; Torresi, E ^[2]; Angelini, L ^[3]; Palumbo, G G. C. ^[4]

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1. SISSA/ISAS, via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste (Italy)
2. INAF/IASF Bologna, viale Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna (Italy)
3. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (United States)
4. Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, I-40127 Bologna (Italy)

We present here the first Simbol-X simulations of the extended components, lobes and hot spots, of the radio galaxies. We use the paradigmatic case of Pictor A to test the capabilities of Simbol-X in this field of studies. Simulations demonstrate that Simbol-X will be able not only to perform spatially resolved studies on the lobes of radio galaxies below 10 keV but also to observe, for the first time, hard X-ray emission from the hot spots. These extremely promising results show the considerable potentiality of Simbol-X in studying interaction phenomena between relativistic plasma and surrounding environment.

• OSTI ID: 21304874
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1126; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
ASTROPHYSICS
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMIC X-RAY SOURCES
GAMMA ASTRONOMY
HARD X RADIATION
HOT SPOTS
KEV RANGE
PHOTON EMISSION
RADIO GALAXIES
RADIOASTRONOMY
RELATIVISTIC PLASMA
X-RAY DETECTION