Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T22:36:25.141Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Mapping the Dynamics of the Quasar 3C 48

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Eleni T. Chatzichristou
Eleni T. Chatzichristou*
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 681, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The archetypical, nearby (z=0.37) quasar 3C 48 is an unusual CSS radio source with excess far-IR emission, whose one-sided radio jet is aligned with the extended ionized emission and a putative second nucleus. Because of its high AGN luminosity and proximity, 3C 48 is a good candidate to search for kinematic signatures of the radio jet-gas coupling and/or of a recent interaction. The radio morphology and our ground-based integral field spectroscopy suggest that the jet is interacting with its immediate environment. Using STIS aboard HST in several slit positions within the central 1”, we map the kinematics and physical conditions of the extended emission line gas and their relations to near-nuclear star forming regions found in existing HST images.

Type
The Inner Regions of Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 205: Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions , 2001 , pp. 162 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

References

Axon, D.J., Marconi, A., Capetti, A., Maccetto, F.D., Schreier, E., Robinson, A. 1998, ApJ, 496L, 75.Google Scholar
Canalizo, G., Stockton, A. 2000, ApJ, 528, 201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chatzichristou, E.T., Vanderriest, C., Jaffe, W. 1999, A&A, 343, 407.Google Scholar
Clark, N.E., Axon, D.J., Tadhunter, C.N., Robinson, A., O'Brien, P. 1998, ApJ, 494, 546.Google Scholar
Hook, R., Lucy, L., Stockton, A., Ridgway, S. 1994, ST-ECF Newsletter, 21, 16.Google Scholar
Jackson, N., Sparks, W.B., Miley, G.K., Macchetto, F. 1995, A&A, 296, 339.Google Scholar
Miley, G.K. 1983, in Proceedings of the International Workshop, Astrophysical Jets, ed. Ferreri, A. & Pacholczyk, A.G. (Dordrecht: Reidel), 99.Google Scholar
Stockton, A., Ridgway, S.E. 1991, AJ, 102, 488.Google Scholar
Tadhunter, C.N., Fosbury, R.A.E., Quinn, P.J. 1989, MNRAS, 240, 225.Google Scholar
Villar-Martin, M., Tadhunter, C., Morganti, R., Clark, N., Killeen, N., Axon, D. 1998, A&A, 332, 479.Google Scholar
Villar-Martin, M., Tadhunter, C., Morganti, R., Axon, D., Koekemoer, A. 1999, MNRAS, 307, 24.Google Scholar
Wilkinson, P.N., Tzioumis, A.K., Benson, J.M., Walker, R.C., Simon, R.S., Kahn, F.D. 1991, Nature, 352, 313.Google Scholar