High-energy jet in NGC 3862

Eso_eso9206a_1024

eso_eso9206a July 27th, 2010

Credit: P. Crane (European Southern Observatory) and NASA/ESA

This is the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the galaxy NGC 3862 that reveals a jet-like feature previously unseen in optical wavelengths.  The image was taken with the European Space Agency's Faint object Camera in F/96 mode at a wavelength of 3400 Å in the near-ultraviolet region of the spectrum. The image's 0.06 arc second resolution reveals several knots and twists in the jet. The jet's full angular size is about 0.6 arc second, corresponding to a length of about 740 light-years.NGC 3862 is an elliptical galaxy in a rich cluster of galaxies known as Abell 1367, located at a distance of about 260 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo.This new type of jet suggests that astronomers are seeing a new and unexpected phenomenon in galactic nuclei.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9206a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
NGC 3862
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Activity > AGN
Galaxy > Type > Elliptical

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (None) Ultraviolet (U) 340.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Eso_eso9206a_1280
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ID
eso9206a
Subject Category
C.5.3.2   E.5.1.4  
Subject Name
NGC 3862
Credits
P. Crane (European Southern Observatory) and NASA/ESA
Release Date
2010-07-27T17:07:15
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9206a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Ultraviolet
Bandpass
U
Central Wavelength
340
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
2213.0, 2119.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso9206a
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9206a.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:36:32+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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