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EnglishWe report spectral, imaging, and variability results from four new XMM-Newton observations and two new Chandra observations of high-redshift (z >~ 4) radio-loud quasars (RLQs). Our targets span lower, and more representative, values of radio loudness than those of past samples of high-redshift RLQs studied in the X-ray regime. Our spectral analyses show power-law X-ray continua with a mean photon index, <Γ> = 1.74 ± 0.11, that is consistent with measurements of lower redshift RLQs. These continua are likely dominated by jet-linked X-ray emission, and they follow the expected anticorrelation between photon index and radio loudness. We find no evidence of iron Kα emission lines or Compton-reflection continua. Our data also constrain intrinsic X-ray absorption in these RLQs. We find evidence for significant absorption (NH ≈ 1.7 × 10^22cm-2) in one RLQ of our sample (SDSS J0011+1446); the incidence of X-ray absorption in our sample appears plausibly consistent with that for high-redshift RLQs that have higher values of radio loudness. In the Chandra observation of PMN J2219-2719 we detect apparent extended (~14 kpc) X-ray emission that is most likely due to a jet; the X-ray luminosity of this putative jet is ≈2% that of the core. The analysis of a 4.9 GHz Very Large Array image of PMN J2219-2719 reveals a structure that matches the X-ray extension found in this source. We also find evidence for long-term (450-460 days) X-ray variability by 80%-100% in two of our targets.
| Titolo: | The X-ray properties of typical high-redshift radio-loud quasars | |
| Autore/i: | Saez C.; Brandt W. N.; Shemmer O.; Chomiuk L.; Lopez L. A.; Marshall H. L.; Miller B. P.; VIGNALI, CRISTIAN | |
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| Anno: | 2011 | |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/738/1/53 | |
| Abstract: | We report spectral, imaging, and variability results from four new XMM-Newton observations and two new Chandra observations of high-redshift (z >~ 4) radio-loud quasars (RLQs). Our targets span lower, and more representative, values of radio loudness than those of past samples of high-redshift RLQs studied in the X-ray regime. Our spectral analyses show power-law X-ray continua with a mean photon index, <Γ> = 1.74 ± 0.11, that is consistent with measurements of lower redshift RLQs. These continua are likely dominated by jet-linked X-ray emission, and they follow the expected anticorrelation between photon index and radio loudness. We find no evidence of iron Kα emission lines or Compton-reflection continua. Our data also constrain intrinsic X-ray absorption in these RLQs. We find evidence for significant absorption (NH ≈ 1.7 × 10^22cm-2) in one RLQ of our sample (SDSS J0011+1446); the incidence of X-ray absorption in our sample appears plausibly consistent with that for high-redshift RLQs that have higher values of radio loudness. In the Chandra observation of PMN J2219-2719 we detect apparent extended (~14 kpc) X-ray emission that is most likely due to a jet; the X-ray luminosity of this putative jet is ≈2% that of the core. The analysis of a 4.9 GHz Very Large Array image of PMN J2219-2719 reveals a structure that matches the X-ray extension found in this source. We also find evidence for long-term (450-460 days) X-ray variability by 80%-100% in two of our targets. | |
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