Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To be published in the volume "Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics (III), Proceedings of the 5th Scientific Meeting of the Span
Scientific paper
Here we summarize our results from a detailed multi-frequency study of the QSO 3C309.1 based on the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations made in mid 1998. From our images, we find a curved jet extending up to 100 milliarcseconds (mas) to the east at low frequencies with two main components, A and B. A preliminary astrometric analysis (Ros and Lobanov 2001) provides a determination of the core position at different frequencies by phase-referencing to a nearby radio source, QSO S5 1448+76. The changes of the core position with frequency suggest high opacity close to the core caused by synchrotron self-absorption. Due to the large astrometric uncertainties we cannot draw any conclusions about the values of the opacity gradients at high frequencies. We believe that a detailed analysis of the frequency depedence of the core position will reveal the profile of the matter distribution in the broad line region, as was initially suggested by Lobanov (1998).
Lobanov Andrei P.
Ros Eduardo
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