1301.4759 (Akihiro Doi et al.)

Multifrequency VLBI Observations of the Broad Absorption Line Quasar J1020+4320: Recently Restarted Jet Activity?    [PDF]

Akihiro Doi, Yasuhiro Murata, Nanako Mochizuki, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Keiichi Asada, Takayuki J. Hayashi, Hiroshi Nagai, Katsunori M. Shibata, Tomoaki Oyama, Takaaki Jike, Kenta Fujisawa, Koichiro Sugiyama, Hideo Ogawa, Kimihiro Kimura, Mareki Honma, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Shoko Koyama

This paper reports very-long-baseline interferometry observations of the radio-loud broad absorption line (BAL) quasar J1020+4320 at 1.7, 2.3, 6.7, and 8.4 GHz using the Japanese VLBI network (JVN) and European VLBI network (EVN). The radio morphology is compact with a size of ~10 pc. The convex radio spectrum is stable over the last decade; an observed peak frequency of 3.2 GHz is equivalent to 9.5 GHz in the rest frame, suggesting an age of the order of ~100 years as a radio source, according to an observed correlation between linear size and peak frequency of compact steep spectrum (CSS) and giga-hertz peaked spectrum (GPS) radio sources. A low-frequency radio excess suggests relic of past jet activity. J1020+4320 may be one of the quasars with recurrent and short-lived jet activity during a BAL-outflowing phase.

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