Pictor A is a nearby Fanaroff-Riley class II (FR II) radio galaxy with a bright hot spot, the western hot spot. Observation of high polarization in the optical emission of the hot spot indicates that the optical emission could be synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons in the hot spot. These electrons may be able to produce high energy γ-ray photons through inverse Compton (IC) scatteri...

We report X-ray observations of the nearby, powerful radio galaxy Pictor A with the Chandra Observatory and optical and near uv observations of its western radio hot spot with the Hubble Space Telescope. X-ray emission is detected from the nucleus, a 1. ′ 9 (110 kpc) long jet to the west of the nucleus, the western radio hot spot some 4. ′ 2 (240 kpc) from the nucleus, and the eastern radio lob...

hot spots are among the most serious operational issues in furnaces as they may result in the destruction of tubes. hence, it is essential to locate such hot spots precisely on the tube surfaces inside the industrial furnaces in order to secure a safe design and operation. in the current study, we have extended the model proposed by talmor in order to precisely locate the combustion hot spots o...

Context. The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, Sgr A*, shows frequent radiation outbursts, often called ’flares’. In the near-infrared some of these flares were reported as showing intrinsic quasi-periodicities. The flux peaks associated with the quasi-periodic behavior were found to be highly polarized. Aims. The aim of this work is to present new evidence to support previous fin...

Aims. We model the X-ray reprocessing from a strong co-rotating flare above an accretion disk in active galactic nuclei. By performing detailed radiative transfer computations we explore the horizontal structure and evolution of the underlying hot spot. The main goal is to study how the resulting spectral features manifest themselves in short exposure time spectra. Methods. We analyze both the ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of identifying names which occur frequently in an ordered list of names. Such names are called hot spots. Hot spots can be identiied easily by counting the occurrences of each name and then selecting those with large counts. However, this simple solution requires space proportional to the number of names that occur in the list. In this paper, we present ...

A new analysis method is introduced for investigating whether major flares are clustered in certain fixed regions of the Sun in rigidly-rotating coordinate systems. This method is applied to analysis of major flares of solar cycles 19–23. Northern and southern hemispheres are separately analyzed, and it is found that longitude distributions of flares in the two hemispheres are different. Theref...