8–13 µm spectrophotometry of galaxies – II. 10 Seyferts and 3C 273

Seyferts and Radio Galaxies

Observations with Compton Gamma Ray Observatory have provided key insights to the high energy emission mechanisms in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and clearly separate them into a class of Blazars, with apparent non-thermal jet emissions often peaking in the EGRET energy band, and into the Seyfert class with emissions more closely related to the accretion disk presumably energizing the nuclear b...

BeppoSAX observations of 3C 273

Time Variable Faraday Rotation Measures of 3c 273 & 3c 279

Multifrequency polarimetry with the VLBA confirms the previously reported timevarying Faraday rotation measure (RM) in the quasar 3C 279. Variability in the RM and electric vector position angle (EVPA) of the jet component (C4) is seen making it an unreliable absolute EVPA calibrator. 3C 273 is also shown to vary its RM structure on 1.5 year time-scales. Variation in the RM properties of quasar...

The Global Jet Structure of the Archetypical Quasar 3C 273

A key question in the formation of the relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is the collimation process of their energetic plasma flow launched from the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Recent observations of nearby low-luminosity radio galaxies exhibit a clear picture of parabolic collimation inside the Bondi accretion radius. On the other hand, little is known of the obser...

A Modified Stratified Model for 3c 273 Jet

We present a modified stratified jet model to interpret the observed spectral energy distributions of knots in 3C 273 jet. Based on the hypothesis of the single index of the particle energy spectrum at injection and identical emission processes among all the knots, the observed difference of spectral shape among different 3C273 knots can be understood as a manifestation of deviation of the equi...