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Discovery of a radio jet in the Cloverleaf quasar at z = 2.56.

Authors :
Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Zhi-Yu
Nightingale, James W
Zou, Ze-Cheng
Cao, Xiaoyue
Tsai, Chao-Wei
Yang, Chentao
Shi, Yong
Wang, Junzhi
Xu, Dandan
Lin, Ling-Rui
Zhou, Jing
Li, Ran
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Sep2023, Vol. 524 Issue 3, p3671-3682. 12p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

The fast growth of supermassive black holes and their feedback to the host galaxies play an important role in regulating the evolution of galaxies, especially in the early Universe. However, due to cosmological dimming and the limited angular resolution of most observations, it is difficult to resolve the feedback from the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to their host galaxies. Gravitational lensing, for its magnification, provides a powerful tool to spatially differentiate emission originating from AGN and host galaxy at high-redshifts. Here, we report a discovery of a jet-like radio structure in a strongly lensed starburst quasar, H1413+117 or Cloverleaf at redshift z  = 2.56, based on observational data at optical, submillimetre, and radio wavelengths. With both parametric and non-parametric lens models and with reconstructed images in the source plane, we find a well-separated, kpc-scaled, single-sided radio jet located at projected |${\sim }1.2\, \mathrm{kpc}$| to the north-west of the host galaxy in the source plane. This could indicate the co-existence of feedback from the AGN by both wind and jet in the Cloverleaf quasar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
524
Issue :
3
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
170902662
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2069