Optical extragalactic jets

Collected by Sebastian Jester.
You will also find Dan Harris' page on X-ray jets useful.

A comparison of the radio properties of sources with optical / X-ray jets to those with radio-only jets is contained in my conference proceedings article (Jester 2002, New Ast. Rev) (also astro-ph/0212397) for "The physics of extragalactic jets in the Chandra and XMM era", Bologna 2002 .

Confirmed jets

Object Catalogs RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Redshift Gal Cl. P1.4t P5c P1.4j Detection Ref. Comment
3C 15 S N F A H C V 00 37 04.09 -01 09 07.7 0.0730 S RG II 25.41 23.48 24.59 (22.87) 1998ApJ...496..203M
3C 31 S N F A H C V 01 07 24.96 +32 24 45.2 0.0169 S0 RG I 24.21 22.45 23.48 (23.39) 1980ApJ...235..749B Candidate detection not confirmed by Fraix-Burnet. Croston et al. have a firm detection.
3C 66B S N F A H C V 02 23 11.78 +42 59 30.4 0.0215 E Sey 1 I 24.69 22.59 23.90 (23.90) 1980ApJ...235..749B In Abell 347 (class 0), 2 companions
3C 78 S N F A H C V 03 08 26.31 +04 06 38.0 0.0289 E Sey 1 I 24.83 23.77 ... (...) 1995ApJ...450L..55S
3C 120 S N F A H C V 04 33 11.10 +05 21 15.6 0.0334 ? Sey 1, BLRG I 24.76 24.93 24.07 1995ApJ...452L..17H
3C 133 S N F A H C V 05 02 58.50 +25 16 24.0 0.2775 RG II 26.72 25.33 24.68 2006ApJ...643..660F
PKS 0521-365 S N F A H C V 05 22 57.98 -36 27 30.9 0.061 ? BL I 25.83 24.75 24.87 1979MNRAS.188..415D
PKS 0637-752 S N F A H C V 06 35 46.51 -75 16 16.8 0.654 ? Sey 1 I 27.84 27.40 ... 2000ApJ...540L..69S
3C 179 S N F A H C V 07 28 10.86 +67 48 46.8 0.846 Sey 1 27.39 26.62 26.21 2004ApJ...608..698S
B2 0755+37 S N F A H C V 07 58 28.11 +37 47 11.8 0.0413 S0 RG I 24.49 23.59 23.52 (...) 2000A&A...362..871C
3C 200 S N F A H C V 08 27 25.44 +29 18 46.5 0.458 E RG II 26.73 24.96 25.72 1996ApJS..107..621D They list it only as candidate, but Scarpa & Urry think it's confirmed. Martel et al. at AAS seem to have the observations.
3C 207 S N F A H C V 08 40 47.5884 +13 12 23.564 0.684 Sey 1 27.23 26.45 26.93 2004ApJ...608..698S
3C 212 S N F A H C V 08 58 41.50 +14 09 44.0 1.049 ? Q II 27.61 25.38 ... 1997AJ....114..511R
3C 245 S N F A H C V 10 42 44.61 +12 03 31.3 1.029 ? Q II 27.80 27.16 27.08 1997AJ....114..511R
PKS 1136-135 S N F A H C V 11 39 10.70 -13 50 43.6 0.554 ? Seyfert 1 27.15 26.27 ... 2002ApJ...571..206S Knots
3C 264 S N F A H C V 11 45 05.08 +19 36 21.6 0.0208 E AGN II 24.48 23.09 23.67 (...) 1993ApJ...402L..37C
4C 49.22 S N F A H C V 11 53 24.47 +49 31 08.8 0.334 ? Q (I) 26.43 25.85 26.14 2002ApJ...571..206S
3C 273 S N F A H C V 12 29 06.69 +02 03 08.6 0.158 E BL II 27.14 26.92 26.66 1964ApJ...140....1G
PKS 1229-021 S N F A H C V 12 32 00.02 -02 24 04.8 1.045 Quasar 1997A&A...321..733L
M87 S N F A H C V 12 30 49.42 +12 23 28.0 0.0043 E LINER I 23.27 1918PLicO..13...31C
3C 277.3 S N F A H C V 12 54 11.684 +27 37 32.57 0.0857 E RG II 25.38 22.99 23.52 1981ApJ...247L...5M Coma A; Goodson et al. 1979 earlier noted possible optical emission from a radio knot
3C 279 S N F A H C V 12 56 11.17 -05 47 21.5 0.536 ? Blazar 27.56 27.56 26.66 2002ApJ...581L..15C
3C 293 S N F A H C V 13 52 17.89 +31 26 47.1 0.0452 ? RG I 25.01 22.70 ... (...) 2006ApJ...639...23F First reported at AAS by Leahy et al (1999)
PKS 1354+195 S N F A H C V 13 57 04.44 +19 19 07.4 0.720 E Sey 1 (II) 27.15 26.92 26.45 2002ApJ...571..206S Knots
3C 296 S N F A H C V 14 16 53.08 +10 48 25.2 0.0237 RG I 24.43 22.69 ... (...) 2005MNRAS.358..843H
3C 303 S N F A H C V 14 43 02.74 +52 01 37.5 0.141 ? Sey 1 II 25.75 24.53 24.33 1997A&A...325...57M These authors realised that the HS candidate is really a knot in jet; Lelievre and Vlerick (in French!) first detected optical emission.
B2 1553+24 S N F A H C V 15 56 04.5 +24 26 51 0.0426 RG (I) 23.36 23.01 22.93 (22.69) 2000A&A...362..871C
4C 69.21 S N F A H C V 16 42 07.8485 +68 56 39.756 0.751 Quasar 27.07 27.08 26.25 2004ApJ...608..698S
3C 345 S N F A H C V 16 42 58.81 +39 48 37.0 0.594 E Blazar 27.57 27.57 26.37 (24.90) 2004ApJ...608..698S
3C 346 S N F A H C V 16 43 48.72 +17 15 49.1 0.16 ? Sey 2 I 26.05 24.81 25.42 1994AJ....107.1977D
B2 1658+30 S N F A H C V 17 00 45.2 +30 08 12 RG (I) 2000A&A...362..871C
3C 371 S N F A H C V 18 06 50.68 +69 49 28.1 0.050 E Blazar 24.84 24.60 23.43 1997ApJ...484L.107N
3C 380 S N F A H C V 18 29 31.80 +48 44 46.6 0.692 ? Sey 1 C (I) 27.94 27.30 ... 1997ApJS..110..191D Hot spot and 1 knot
4C 73.18 S N F A H C V 19 27 48.4952 +73 58 01.570 0.302 Sey 1 26.58 26.49 24.8 (24.0) 2004ApJ...608..698S
3C 401 S N F A H C V 19 40 25.10 +60 41 35.0 0.201 FR II/Seyfert 26.37 24.09 25.24 2005ApJ...629..100C
3C 403 S N F A H C V 19 52 14.80 +02 30 28.0 0.059 X-shaped FR II 25.41 22.59 23.99 2005ApJ...622..149K
PKS 2201+044 S N F A H C V 22 04 17.7 +04 40 03 0.028 ? Seyfert 1 24.10 23.41 ... 1999ApJ...526..643S
3C 454.3 S N F A H C V 22 53 57.75 +16 08 53.6 0.859 Quasar 28.10 28.03 26.43 2005ApJ...628..104C
4C 13.85 S N F A H C V 22 54 21.00 +13 41 49.0 0.673 Quasar 26.88 26.51 ... 2004ApJ...608..698S

Candidate jets

Object Catalogs RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Redshift Gal Cl. P1.4t P5c P1.4j Detection Ref. Comment
NGC 6251 S N F A H C V 16 32 31.63 +82 32 16.3 0.0230 E S2 II 24.14 23.66 24.11 (22.46) 1988ApJ...329..532K Optical emission not confirmed by HST observations (see Sambruna et al. 2004, e.g.).
MRK 463 S N F A H C V 13 56 02.82 +18 22 17.3 z +.049684 Seyfert 2 1993AJ....105.1308U Not synchrotron but reflected light
3C 449 S N F A H C V 22 31 20.55 +39 21 29.6 0.0171 24.02 22.07 <22.1 (...) 1994A&A...289...61C Candidate only
PKS 0137+012 S N F A H C V 01 39 57.25 +01 31 46.2 z +.26 ? Seyfert 1 Somehow this is on my list,
but I can't find the jet.
3C 19 S N F A H C V
PKS 0445+097 S N F A H C V 2.110 27.78 27.29 ...
3C 20 S N F A H C V 0.174 26.52 23.07 24.42
3C 196.1 S N F A H C V
3C 216 S N F A H C V 0.668 27.37 26.86 26.39
3C 268.3 S N F A H C V
3C 388 S N F A H C V 18 44 02.50 +45 Seyfert 25.73 23.76 23.71 (23.32) 2002ApJS..139..411A
3C 410 S N F A H C V
3C 433 S N F A H C V 0.1016 26.15 22.76 24.24
PKS 2135-147 S N F A H C V 21 37 45.24 -14 32 55.4 z +.200300 S1 E 1997ApJ...479..642B

Column explanations

Catalogs

Links to external catalog entries:

P1.4t, P5c, P1.4j

Total power at 1.4 GHz, core power at 5 GHz, and jet power at 1.4 GHz. If the source has two jets, the flux for the jet without optical emission is added in ().
Taken from Liu & Zhang, A new list of extra-galactic radio jets, A&A 381, 757 (2002)
Last modified: Wed Jun 28 12:24:15 CEST 2006 by Sebastian Jester.
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