Parsec-scale Radio Imaging of the nearby X-ray bright Seyfert NGC6764

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NGC6764 is a nearby Seyfert 2/LINER galaxy with signatures of recent massive star formation. It is one of the few Seyfert galaxies with large (kpc-) scale radio bubbles in them. The ROSAT X-ray Observatory detected a highly variable X-ray source in NGC6764, which was suggestive of the presence of a compact AGN. However our recent Chandra observations failed to reveal a strong X-ray nucleus. The Chandra observations however did reveal kpc-scale diffuse X-ray emission coincident with the radio bubbles (Croston et al., 2008). Spectral fitting indicated that the X-ray emission was emanating from hot thermal gas, possibly excited by an AGN outflow. Here we present results from our recent parsec-scale radio imaging of NGC6764 with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.6 and 4.9 GHz, which detected a faint jet-like structure, almost perpendicular to the kpc-scale radio/X-ray bubbles. We discuss the implications of this finding in the light of the conclusions drawn from our Chandra study on NGC6764.

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