III Zw 2: superluminal expansion and compact lobe expansion in a Seyfert galaxy

Details III Zw 2: superluminal expansion and compact lobe expansion in a Seyfert galaxy III Zw 2: superluminal expansion and compact lobe expansion in a Seyfert galaxy

2000-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009468v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, to appear in "Proceedings of the 5th EVN Symposium", Eds. J. Conway, A. Polatidis & R. Booth, Onsala Space Observator

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So far, all relativistically boosted jets with superluminal motion have only been detected in typical radio galaxies with early type host galaxies. We have now discovered superluminal motion in the Seyfert I galaxy III Zw 2, classified as a spiral. The lower limit for the apparent expansion speed is 1.25 c. Spectral and spatial evolution are closely linked. Before and after this rapid expansion we have seen a period of virtually no expansion with an expansion speed less than 0.04 c. However, at 15 GHz the picture is completely different. III Zw 2 shows slow expansion ($\sim 0.6 c$) during the time of no expansion at 43 GHz and no expansion during the rapid expansion at 43 GHz. The difference between the two frequencies is qualitatively explained by optical-depth effects in an 'inflating- balloon model', describing the evolution of radio lobes on an ultra-compact scale. The stop-and-go behavior could be explained by a jet interacting with a molecular cloud or the molecular torus. Since III Zw 2 is also part of a sample of so- called radio-intermediate quasars (RIQ), it confirms earlier predictions of superluminal motion for this source, based on the argument that RIQs could be relativistically boosted jets in radio-weak quasars and Seyfert galaxies.

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