Two-sided radio emission in ON231 (W Comae)

Details Two-sided radio emission in ON231 (W Comae) Two-sided radio emission in ON231 (W Comae)

2001-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105521v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010754

Recent radio images of the BL Lac object ON231 (W Com, 1219+285) show remarkable new features in the source structure compared to those previously published. The images were obtained from observations made with the European VLBI Network plus MERLIN at 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz after the exceptional optical outburst occurred in Spring 1998. The up-to-date B band historic light curve of ON231 is also presented together with the R band luminosity evolution in the period 1994--1999. We identify the source core in the radio images with the brightest component having the flattest spectrum. A consequence of this assumption is the existence of a two--sided emission in ON231 not detected in previous VLBI images. A further new feature is a large bend in the jet at about 10 mas from the core. The emission extends for about 20 mas after the bend, which might be due to strong interaction with the environment surrounding the nucleus. We suggest some possible interpretations to relate the changes in the source structure with the optical and radio flux density variation in the frame of the unification model.

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