Issue |
A&A
Volume 434, Number 1, April IV 2005
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Page(s) | 101 - 107 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042316 | |
Published online | 01 April 2005 |
The radio counter-jet of the QSO 3C 48
1
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, PR China e-mail: wfeng@shao.ac.cn
2
Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, PR China
3
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China
4
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS 78, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
5
Istituto di Radioastronomia del CNR, via Gobetti 101, 4129 Bologna, Italy
Received:
5
November
2004
Accepted:
9
December
2004
We present multi-frequency radio observational results
of the quasar 3C 48. The observations were carried out with the
Very Large Array (VLA) at five frequencies, 0.33, 1.5, 4.8, 8.4,
and 22.5 GHz, and with the Multi-Element Radio Linked
Interferometer Network (MERLIN) at the two frequencies of 1.6 and 5 GHz. The source shows a one-sided jet to the north within 1´´, which then extends to the northeast and becomes
diffuse. Two bright components (N2 and N3), containing most of the
flux density, are present in the northern jet. The spectral index
of the two components is and
(
). Our images
show the presence of an extended structure surrounding component N2, suggestive of strong interaction between the jet and the
interstellar medium (ISM) of the host galaxy. A steep-spectrum
component, labelled S, located 0.25'' southwest to the
flat-spectrum component which could be the core of 3C 48, is
detected at a significance of >
. Both the location and
the steepness of the spectrum of component S suggest the presence
of a counter-jet in 3C 48.
Key words: galaxies: quasars: individual: 3C 48 / galaxies: jets / galaxies: interactions
© ESO, 2005
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