We report on our results of X-ray spectral analysis for a sample of radio-loud quasars covering a wide range of the radio core-dominance parameter, R, from core- dominated to lobe-dominated objects, using data obtained mostly with the XMM-Newton Observatory. We find that the spectral shape of the underlying power-law continuum is flat even for the lobe-dominated objects （average photon index ~ 1.5）, indistinguishable from that of core-dominated quasars. For lobe-dominated objects, contribution of X-rays from the jets is expected to be very small based on previous unification schemes, more than one order of magnitude lower than the observed X-ray luminosities. Assuming that radio-loud quasars follow the same X-ray-UV/optical luminosity relation for the disk-corona emission as found for radio-quiet quasars, we estimate the X-ray flux contributed by the disk-corona component from the optical/UV continuum. We find that neither the luminosity, nor the spectral shape, of the disk-corona X-ray emission can account for the bulk of the observed X-ray properties. Thus in lobe-dominated quasars, either the disk-corona X-ray emission is much enhanced in strength and flatter in spectral shape （photon index - 1.5） compared to normal radio-quiet quasars, or their jet X-ray emission is much enhanced compared to their weak radio core-jet emission. If the latter is the case, our result may imply that the jet emission in X-rays is less Doppler beamed than that in the radio. As a demonstrating example, we test this hypothesis by using a specific model in which the X-ray jet has a larger opening angle than the radio jet.
We collected almost all Highly Processed Data Products （HPDP） of ISO SWS01 spectra for the Galactic visual carbon stars,infrared carbon stars,extreme carbon stars and carbon-rich proto-planetary nebulae （PPNs）.Those infrared spectra are primarily analyzed and discussed.It is shown that either spectral shapes/peaks,or main molecular/dust features are evidenced to change in the sequence of visual carbon stars,infrared carbon stars,extreme carbon stars and carbon-rich PPNs.Statistically,in this sequence,continua are gradually changed from blue to red and locations of spectral peaks of continua are also gradually changed from short wavelengths to long wavelengths.In addition,in this sequence,intensities of main molecular/dust features are also gradually changed from prominent in the short wavelengths to prominent in the long wavelengths.Furthermore,from 2MASS and IRAS photometric data,the sequence is also proved.Results in this paper strongly support the previous suggestion for the evolution sequence of carbon-rich objects in our Galaxy,that is the sequence of visual carbon stars → infrared carbon stars → extreme carbon stars → carbon-rich PPNs.
We present results of multi-epoch XMM-Newton observations separated by several years of the narrow-line Seyfert 1(NLS1) galaxy,SDSS J160508.87+323921.4.The NLS1 showed X-ray flux variations on timescales of years as well as low amplitude variations on timescales as short as hours,while the X-ray spectral shape remained essentially unchanged.The spectrum shows a significant soft X-ray excess.The model of reflection from an ionized disc,that is dominant in the whole XMM-Newton bandpass,provides the best description of the observed spectra for all the observations,though alternatives such as Compton scattering(T-0.25 keV) cannot be ruled out in a statistical sense.For the disc reflection model,the observed variations may originate either from the change in the reflection fraction,or from the variability of the intrinsic X-ray luminosity.
AI YanLi1,2,3,YUAN WeiMin1,2,ZHOU HongYan4,5 & WANG JianGuo1,2,3 1 National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Kunming 650011,China
