Structure and evolution of the compact radio source in NGC 1275
| Autor: | Jonathan D. Romney, J. M. Benson, K. I. Kellermann, R. C. Vermeulen, R. C. Walker, Vivek Dhawan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92:11360-11363 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.92.25.11360 |
| Popis: | Investigations of the fine-scale structure in the compact nucleus of the radio source 3C 84 in NGC 1275 (New General Catalogue number) are reported. Structural monitoring observations beginning as early as 1976, and continuing to the present, revealed subluminal motions in a jet-like relatively diffuse region extending away from a flat-spectrum core. A counterjet feature was discovered in 1993, and very recent nearly simultaneous studies have detected the same feature at five frequencies ranging from 5 to 43 GHz. The counterjet exhibits a strong low-frequency cutoff, giving this region of the source an inverted spectrum. The observations are consistent with a physical model in which the cutoff arises from free-free absorption in a volume that surrounds the core but obscures only the counterjet feature. If such a model is confirmed, very-long-baseline radio interferometry observations can then be used to probe the accretion region, outside the radio jet, on parsec scales. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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