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Whats the source of X-ray hotspots?

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Whats the source of X-ray hotspots?

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For luminous hotspots, the X-rays seem to come from Synchrotron Self-Compton emission, where the magnetic fields are in equipartition; hot spots in lower luminosity jets seem to shine due to synchrotron emission alone (at least in FRII sources; astro-ph/0405516).

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