Observations of Superluminal Motions in 3C 120

The trails of superluminal jet components in 3C 111

In 1996 a major radio flux density outburst occurred in the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111. It was followed by a particularly bright plasma ejection associated with a superluminal jet component, which has shaped the parsec-scale structure of 3C 111 for almost a decade. Here we present results from 18 epochs of Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations conducted since 1995 as part of the VLBA...

BeppoSAX observations of 3C 273

X-ray Emission from the Radio Jet in 3c 120

We report the discovery of X-ray emission from a radio knot at a projected distance of 25′′ from the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy, 3C 120. The data were obtained with the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). Optical upper limits for the knot preclude a simple power law extension of the radio spectrum and we calculate some of the physical parameters for thermal bremsstrahlung and synchrotron sel...

The broad-band spectrum of 3C 120 observed by BeppoSAX

We study a broad-band X-ray observation by BeppoSAX of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120. The primary X-ray continuum is well described by a power law with the photon index of Γ ∼ 1.85± 0.05 and a high-energy break or a cutoff. The obtained e-folding energy of ∼ 100–300 keV corresponds to kT ∼ 50 keV in thermal-Compton models. A soft X-ray excess is found at a statistical significance of & 98%...

3c 129 : the Gmrt Observations

We present radio maps of the head-tail radio galaxy, 3C 129 at 240 and 610 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. We have studied in detail the morphology of the source and the distribution of spectral index over the object. We find large-scale spectral steepening along the jet away from the core. Using synchrotron spectral ageing theory, we infer the age (time since particle accelerati...