next up previous contents
Next: PKS 1514-241 Up: The individual sources Previous: PKS 0537-441

PKS 0637-752

PKS 0637-752 (z=0.656) is another of the strong, flat-spectrum radio sources considered by von Montigny et al. [1995b] in their investigation of radio sources not identified by EGRET. von Montigny et al. [1995b] place an upper limit of 1.5 tex2html_wrap_inline4188 10 tex2html_wrap_inline4406 cm tex2html_wrap_inline4408 s tex2html_wrap_inline4240 in greater than 100 MeV gamma-rays from the direction of this AGN.

   figure638
Figure: Low contour, tex2html_wrap_inline4376 1%. Peak, 3.6 Jy/beam. Beam, 1.9 tex2html_wrap_inline4188 0.6 mas @ 7.3 tex2html_wrap_inline3860 .

The compact structure of the radio source was first revealed by Preston et al. [1989] with 2.3 GHz VLBI observations utilising the SHEVE array. They reported an essentially unresolved component with a 2.6 Jy core and a halo of emission greater than 20 mas in extent with a flux density of 1.5 Jy. The latest VLBI observations (Figure 4.10) at the higher frequency of 4.8 GHz show that the compact radio structure is dominated by a bright core and a jet lying at a position angle of approximately tex2html_wrap_inline4614 . Two-frequency imaging of the kpc-scale radio structure with the ATCA [Lovell, McCulloch, & Jauncey 1995] shows a strongly one-sided jet which lies at a position angle of approximately tex2html_wrap_inline4616 . The mas-scale and arcsecond-scale radio structures are very well aligned, the difference in position angle being approximately 4 tex2html_wrap_inline3860 .

From Figure 4.10, the core FWHM and total flux density, de-convolved from the restoring beam, have been estimated at 0.4 tex2html_wrap_inline4188 0.4 mas and 4.3 Jy respectively, leading to a value for the observed radio core brightness temperature of approximately 1.5 tex2html_wrap_inline4188 10 tex2html_wrap_inline4322 K at the frequency of 4.8 GHz. The source frame brightness temperature is therefore approximately tex2html_wrap_inline4626 K, again at or in excess of the inverse Compton limit for synchrotron radiation.

Again the mismatch in resolution and data quality between this image and the model of Preston et al. [1989] do not allow a useful estimate of apparent motion to be made for this source.


next up previous contents
Next: PKS 1514-241 Up: The individual sources Previous: PKS 0537-441

Steven Tingay
Tue Nov 26 15:27:29 PST 1996