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Optical synchrotron emission in the southern lobe of 3C33

Abstract

Charge coupled device polarimetry at a wavelength of 660 nm has detected a highly-polarized optical source, which is coincident with the radio hotspot at the leading edge of the southern lobe of 3C33. The optical polarization data perfectly match the high-frequency Very Large Array observations, thus providing the first direct evidence for optical synchrotron radiation from a classic double radio source. The extended structure of the emission region requires a huge particle accelerator boosting electrons to highly relativistic energies (up to 100 GeV) over a region several kiloparsecs in extent.
Publication Date:
Feb 06, 1986
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
AIX-17-046227; EDB-86-139447
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Nature (London); (United Kingdom); Journal Volume: 319:6053
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES; ACCELERATORS; BRIGHTNESS; CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRONS; EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEV RANGE 10-100; HOT SPOTS; MAPS; POLARIZATION; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; VISIBLE RADIATION; WAVELENGTHS; DATA; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; GEV RANGE; INFORMATION; LEPTONS; NUMERICAL DATA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; 640103* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Quasi-Stellar, Radio, & X-Ray Sources- (-1987)
OSTI ID:
5649003
Research Organizations:
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany, F.R.
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: NATUA
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
Pages: 459-463
Announcement Date:
Jul 01, 1986

Citation Formats

Meisenheimer, K, and Roeser, H -J. Optical synchrotron emission in the southern lobe of 3C33. United Kingdom: N. p., 1986. Web. doi:10.1038/319459a0.
Meisenheimer, K, & Roeser, H -J. Optical synchrotron emission in the southern lobe of 3C33. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/319459a0
Meisenheimer, K, and Roeser, H -J. 1986. "Optical synchrotron emission in the southern lobe of 3C33." United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/319459a0.
@misc{etde_5649003,
title = {Optical synchrotron emission in the southern lobe of 3C33}
author = {Meisenheimer, K, and Roeser, H -J}
abstractNote = {Charge coupled device polarimetry at a wavelength of 660 nm has detected a highly-polarized optical source, which is coincident with the radio hotspot at the leading edge of the southern lobe of 3C33. The optical polarization data perfectly match the high-frequency Very Large Array observations, thus providing the first direct evidence for optical synchrotron radiation from a classic double radio source. The extended structure of the emission region requires a huge particle accelerator boosting electrons to highly relativistic energies (up to 100 GeV) over a region several kiloparsecs in extent.}
doi = {10.1038/319459a0}
journal = []
volume = {319:6053}
journal type = {AC}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1986}
month = {Feb}
}