Milliarcsecond-Scale Structure in the Gamma-Ray Loud Quasar PKS 1622-297

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2005-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511063v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, to appear in PASJ, Vol.58, No.1

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We have made a high-resolution VLBI observation of the gamma-ray loud quasar PKS 1622-297 with the HALCA spacecraft and ground radio telescopes at 5 GHz in 1998 February, almost three years after the source exhibited a spectacular GeV gamma-ray flare. The source shows an elongated structure toward the west on the parsec scale. The visibility data are well modeled by three distinct components; a bright core and two weaker jet components. Comparison with previous observations confirms that the jet components have an apparent superluminal motion up to 12.1 h^{-1}c, with the inner jet components having lower superluminal speeds. We apply the inverse Compton catastrophe model and derive a Doppler factor, \delta, of 2.45, which is somewhat lower than that of other gamma-ray loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), suggesting the source was in a more quiescent phase at the epoch of our observation. As an alternative probe of the sub-parsec scale structure, we also present the results from multi-epoch ATCA total flux monitoring, which indicate the presence of persistent intraday variability consistent with refractive interstellar scintillation. We examine the gamma-ray emission mechanism in the light of these observations.

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