Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-2xdlg Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-19T18:37:56.048Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Superluminal Motion in the Largest Known Quasar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

P. D. Barthel ,
R. T. Schilizzi ,
G. K. Miley ,
E. Preuss  and
J. R. Hooimeyer
P. D. Barthel
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology Leiden Observatory
R. T. Schilizzi
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy
G. K. Miley
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory Space Telescope Science Institute
E. Preuss
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
J. R. Hooimeyer
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We discuss VLBI observations of the bright core in the large, triple radio source 4C 34.37, associated with a quasar at z = 0.206. We have discovered superluminal motion in this quasar, which is the largest quasar known. We comment on the implications of these findings, and subsequently examine the projected size distributions of lobe and core dominated quasars in general. The results of these investigations lead us to conclude that neither superluminal motion, nor core prominence can simply be translated into an orientation of the overall radio source.

Type
Extragalactic
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 17 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

References

Barthel, P.D., Miley, G.K., Schilizzi, R.T., Preuss, E. 1984: Astron. Ap. 148, 243.Google Scholar
Barthel, P.D., Pearson, T.J., Readhead, A.C.S., Canzian, B.J. 1986: Ap. J. (Letters) 310, L7.Google Scholar
Barthel, P.D. 1987: in Superluminal Radio Sources, ed. Zensus, & Pearson, (Cambridge University Press), p. 148.Google Scholar
Browne, I.W.A. 1987: in Superluminal Radio Sources, ed. Zensus, & Pearson, (Cambridge University Press), p. 129.Google Scholar
Orr, M.J.L., Browne, I.W.A. 1982: M. N. R. A. S. 200, 1067.Google Scholar
Wills, B.J., Browne, I.W.A. 1986: Ap. J. 302, 56.Google Scholar