Radio Quasar 3C351

This image shows the radio emission from relativistic streams of high energy particles generated by the quasar. Astronomers believe that the jets are fueled by material accreting onto a super-massive black hole at the center of the host galaxy (not shown in this image). The high energy particles are confined to remarkably well collimated jets, and are shot into extragalactic space at speeds approaching the speed of light, where they eventually balloon into massive radio lobes. The overall linear size is 230/h kpc (Hubble constant H = 100h km/s/Mpc). The lobes are faint and very extended, and there are unusually prominent hot spots and filaments in the North lobe. The jet is bright near the nucleus, but much fainter in the outer regions.

FR II quasar at z=0.371. VLA 4.9 GHz image at 0.37 arcsec resolution

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3C351

Alan H. Bridle, David H. Hough, Colin J. Lonsdale, Jack O. Burns, Robert A. Laing

Very Large Array (VLA)

1986-03-29

continuum

C

6 cm

5.0 GHz

RA 17:4:41.440, Dec: 60:44:30.400 (J2000)

0.020000 x 0.010000 degrees

Active Galactic Nuclei Series

Quasars Unit