Letter to the Editor

B1524-136: A CSS quasar with two-sided radio jets

¹ Istituto di Radioastronomia, CNR, via P. Gobetti 101, Bologna, Italy
² National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Post Bag 3, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Blvd., N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
⁴ Arecibo Observatory, HC3 Box 53995, Arecibo, Puerto Rico PR 00612, USA
⁵ Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy

Corresponding author: F. Mantovani, fmantova@ira.bo.cnr.it

Received: 10 April 2002
Accepted: 7 May 2002

Abstract

We present MERLIN, global VLBI and VLBA observations of the high-luminosity, compact steep-spectrum quasar B1524-136 at cm wavelengths. These observations reveal well-defined radio jets on both sides of the active nucleus, a situation which is almost unique amongst high-luminosity radio quasars. However, the radio jets on opposite sides are very dissimilar, and the overall radio structure appears highly distorted. We discuss possible implications of these observations.