Mildly Relativistic Motion in the Radio Quiet Quasar PG 1351+640

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العنوان: Mildly Relativistic Motion in the Radio Quiet Quasar PG 1351+640
المؤلفون: Wang, Ailing, An, Tao, Guo, Shaoguang, Ho, Luis C., Baan, Willem A., Braun, Robert, Chen, Sina, Cheng, Xiaopeng, Hartley, Philippa, Yang, Jun, Zhang, Yingkang
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
الوصف: Measuring the proper motion of the emission component in radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) could help to distinguish between the origins of the radio emission and to understand whether the jet production mechanism is the same in radio-loud quasars (RLQs) and RQQs. PG 1351+640 is one of the few RQQs suitable for proper motion studies: it has two compact components on milli-arcsecond scales, a flat-spectrum core and a steep-spectrum jet; both components are >2 mJy at 5 GHz and are well suited for Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations. We compare recent VLBA observations with that made seventeen years ago and find no significant change in the core-jet separation between 2005 and 2015 (a proper motion of 0.003 mas yr-1). However, the core-jet separation increased significantly between 2015 and 2022, inferring a jet proper motion velocity of 0.063 mas yr-1, which corresponds to an apparent transverse velocity of 0.37c. The result suggests that the jet of the RQQ PG 1351+640 is mildly relativistic and oriented at a relatively small viewing angle.
Comment: The article has been published by Oxford University Press: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slad051/7146829?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=mnrasl&utm_medium=email
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad051
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03470
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2305.03470
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv