Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992a%26a...259l..61a&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 259, no. 2, p. L61-L64.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Image Resolution, Luminosity, Quasars, Radio Jets (Astronomy), Red Shift, Very Large Array (Vla), Extragalactic Radio Sources, Flux Density, High Resolution
Scientific paper
We present a high fidelity image of the powerful doublelobed superluminal quasar 3C179 made with MERLIN at 5 GHz. It has a knotty one-aided jet which appears to be disrupted at a 'splash' knot. Its asymmetric structure can be explained within the relativistic beaming hypothesis if the jet has slowed after the disruption. We infer that the jet is inclined at about 12-23 deg to the line sight with a speed of about 0.6-0.8 c. This is compatible with hotspot advance speed of about 0.02 c, so we need not invoke relativistic considerations to explain the hotspot asymmetry.
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