Detection of Optical Synchrotron Emission from the Radio Jet of 3c 279
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We report the detection of optical and ultraviolet emission from the kiloparsec scale jet of the well-known quasar 3C 279. A bright knot, discovered in archival V and U band Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera images, is coincident with a peak in the radio jet ∼0.6 from the nucleus. The detection was also confirmed in Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 images. Archival Very Large Array and MERLIN radio data are also analyzed which help to show that the high-energy optical/UV continuum, and spectrum, are consistent with a synchrotron origin from the same population of relativistic electrons responsible for the radio emission. Subject headings: Galaxies: active — galaxies: jets — quasars: general — quasars: individual (3C 279) — radio
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