FIRST-based survey of compact steep spectrum sources

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Issue		A&A Volume 469, Number 2, July II 2007


Page(s)		437 - 450
Section		Extragalactic astronomy
DOI		http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066364

A&A 469, 437-450 (2007)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066364

V. Milliarcsecond-scale morphology of CSS objects

M. Kunert-Bajraszewska and A. Marecki

Torun Centre for Astronomy, N. Copernicus University, 87-100 Torun, Poland
e-mail: magda@astro.uni.torun.pl

(Received 8 September 2006 / Accepted 7 March 2007 )

Abstract
Aims.Multifrequency VLBA observations of the final group of ten objects in a sample of FIRST-based compact steep spectrum (CSS) sources are presented. The sample was selected to investigate whether objects of this kind could be relics of radio-loud AGNs switched off at very early stages of their evolution or possibly to indicate intermittent activity.
Methods.Initial observations were made using MERLIN at 5 GHz. The sources have now been observed with the VLBA at 1.7, 5 and 8.4 GHz in a snapshot mode with phase-referencing. The resulting maps are presented along with unpublished 8.4-GHz VLA images of five sources.
Results.Some of the sources discussed here show a complex radio morphology and therefore a complicated past that, in some cases, might indicate intermittent activity. One of the sources studied - 1045+352 - is known as a powerful radio and infrared-luminous broad absorption line (BAL) quasar. It is a young CSS object whose asymmetric two-sided morphology on a scale of several hundred parsecs, extending in two different directions, may suggest intermittent activity. The young age and compact structure of 1045+352 is consistent with the evolution scenario of BAL quasars. It has also been confirmed that the submillimetre flux of 1045+352 can be seriously contaminated by synchrotron emission.

Key words: galaxies: active -- galaxies: evolution -- quasars: absorption lines

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