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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 1 Hard X-ray study of lobes of radio galaxy Fornax A Naoki Isobe (RIKEN/Suzaku Help Desk) Makoto Tashiro, Hiromi Seta, Yuichi Yaji (Saitama Univ.) Keiko Matsuta, Hidehiro Kaneda (ISAS/JAXA), Kazuo Makishima (RIKEN/Univ.of Tokyo) etc.
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 2 Radio Galaxy Fornax A Nearby radio galaxy (D = 18.6 Mpc) The 1 st source, from which the lobe IC X-ray emission was detected with ASCA and ROSAT (e.g., Kaneda et al. 1995) The flux of IC X-ray emission indicate a magnetic field of 1.2 G (Isobe et al. 2006), which is slightly smaller than the field under the minimum energy condition (1.55G). The X-ray/radio distribution suggest a homogeneous electron and edge- strengthened magnetic field distributions (Tashiro et al. 2001). Color : ASCA (2-10 keV) Contour : VLA 1.4 GHz
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 3 Radio Galaxy Fornax A Nearby radio galaxy (D = 18.6 Mpc) The 1 st source, from which the lobe IC X-ray emission was detected with ASCA and ROSAT (e.g., Kaneda et al. 1995) The flux of IC X-ray emission indicate a magnetic field of 1.2 G (Isobe et al. 2006), which is slightly smaller than the field under the minimum energy condition (1.55G). The X-ray/radio distribution suggest a homogeneous electron and edge- strengthened magnetic field distributions (Tashiro et al. 2001). XMM-Newton Spectrum of Fornax A east lobe X = 1.62 -0.15 +0.24 (Isobe et al. 2006)
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 4 Radio Galaxy Fornax A Nearby radio galaxy (D = 18.6 Mpc) The 1 st source, from which the lobe IC X-ray emission was detected with ASCA and ROSAT (e.g., Kaneda et al. 1995) The flux of IC X-ray emission from the east lobe indicate a magnetic field of 1.2 G (Isobe et al. 2006), which is slightly smaller than the field under the minimum energy condition (1.55G). The X-ray/radio distribution suggest a homogeneous electron and edge- strengthened magnetic field distributions (Tashiro et al. 2001). ASCA (2-10 keV) VLA 1.4 GHz (Tashiro et al. 2001)
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 5 What we have to do next The Lorents factor of radio electrons is larger than that of X-ray ones It is important to detect radio/X-ray emission from electrons with the same Lorentz factor. 2 options low-frequency radio Hard X-ray Low-frequency radio observation is difficult. Hard X-ray observation with Suzaku is the ideal tool. Spectral Energy Distribution (Isobe et al. 2006) 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 3 10 4 10 5 Lorents factor e
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 6 The X-ray Observatory Suzaku The 5 th Japanese X-ray satellite, launched July 10, 2005. (about 3 years old.) 2 X-ray detectors XIS (X-ray Imaging Spectrometer) 3 CCD cameras active 1 BI CCD (XIS1) 2 FI CCD (XIS0, 3) 0.2 – 10 keV Low background Good energy resolution HXD (Hard X-ray Detector) PIN Si-PIN diode : 10 – 60 keV GSO GSO scintillator : 60 – 300 keV Wide energy band low background HXDXIS Suzaku
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 7 Suzaku observation of Fornax A HXD/PIN FoV (FWHM) XIS 0.5 – 10 keV VLA 1.4 GHz (Fomalont et l 1989) 2 Suzaku exposures : Host Galaxy (40 ks) and West Lobe (80 ks)
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 8 Suzaku HXD/PIN Spectrum Comparison with Data & NXB Hard X-ray signals from the west lobe are significant up to 20 keV. NXB-Subtracted Comparison with Data & CXB CXB (Boldt 1987) Data NXB (Tuned) NXB-Subtracted 2% of NXB
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 9 Wide-band X-ray spectrum of the west lobe 0.2 keV0.8 keV PL component = 1.82 ±0.22 S 1keV = 137 -29 +32 nJy
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 10 Spectral Energy Distribution e = 4200 R = 1.68 ± 0.05 X = 1.82 ± 0.22 e = 4200 Spectrum of the radio electrons is connected to that of IC X-ray electrons
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 11 Physical quantities in lobes R (arcmin) (kpc) S 1.4GHz (Jy) R X S 1keV (nJy) 10 54.1 44 ±5.9 1.68 ± 0.05 1.62 -0.15 +0.24 90 +8 -9 East Lobe (XMM-Newton, Isobe et al. 2006) West Lobe (Suzaku, This Work ) 12 64.9 74 ± 7.7 1.68 ± 0.05 1.82 ± 0.22 137 -29 +32 B me (G) B IC (G) u B (10 -13 erg cm -3 ) u e (10 -13 erg cm -3 ) u e /u m 1.55 1.23 ± 0.07 0.61 ± 0.07 3.0 ± 0.3 5.0 ± 1.0 1.59 1.4 ± 0.1 0.78 ± 0.10 2.36 ± 0.25 3.0 ± 0.7
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 12 Future perspective 10 3 10 4 10 5 GLAST Sensitivity (5 s / 1year) Cheung et al. 2006 Sambruna @ 1 st GLAST Symp. NeXT SXI/HXT
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 13 Summary IC X-ray emission was detected up to 20 keV from the west lobe of Fornax A, with Suzaku HXD. The X-ray spectrum of the west lobe is described with a PL model with = 1.82±0.22 and S 1keV = 137-29+34 nJy. A comparison between the radio and X-ray fluxes gives B = 1.4±0.1 G, which is slightly smaller than the minimum energy field B me = 1.59 G. The X-ray photons of 20 keV corresponds to the electron Lorents factor of e ~ 5000. As a result, we have succeeded in connecting the electron spectra of synchrotron and IC emitting electrons.
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July 7-11, 2008 Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era 14 References Kaneda et al. 1995 ApJ 453, L13 Iyomoto et al. 1998 ApJ 503, L31 Tashiro et al. 2001 ApJ 546, L19 Isobe et al. 2006 ApJ 645, 256
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