Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-04-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
20 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
We present the compact radio structure of three radio-loud narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies from VLBA archive data at 2.3, 5 and 8.4 GHz. In RXS J16290+4007, the radio structure is mostly unresolved. The combination of compact radio structure, high brightness temperature and inverted spectrum between simultaneous 2.3 and 8.4 GHz, strongly favors jet relativistic beaming. Combining with the VLBI data at 1.6 and 8.4 GHz from literatures, we argued that RXS J16333+4718 may also harbor a relativistic jet, with resolved core-jet structure in 5 GHz. B3 1702+457 is clearly resolved with well defined jet component. The overall radio steep spectrum indicates that B3 1702+457 is likely a source optically defined as NLS1 with radio definition of compact steep spectrum sources. From these three sources, we found that radio loud NLS1s can be either intrinsically radio loud (e.g. B3 1702+457), or apparently radio loud due to jet beaming effect (e.g. RXS J16290+4007 and RXS J16333+4718).
Chen Yongjun
Gu Minfeng
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