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Relativistic Beaming and the Nuclei of Double-lobed Radio Quasars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

D. H. Hough  and
A. C. S. Readhead
D. H. Hough
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 238-700, Pasadena, CA 91109
A. C. S. Readhead
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, 105-24, Pasadena. CA 91125

Abstract

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We have defined a complete sample of double-lobed 3CR quasars with minimal orientation bias. Properties of these objects on the >kpc scale are consistent with the simple beaming model for their nuclei. VLBI maps of six nuclei reveal “core-jet” structures. Both nuclei mapped at multiple epochs are modestly superluminal (3C245, 3.1c; 3C263, 1.3c; H0=100 km/s/Mpc, q0=0.5). The distribution of apparent velocities in this sample will provide a stringent test of beaming.

Type
Extragalactic
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 99 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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