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T1 - Constraining the radio jet proper motion of the high-redshift quasar J2134-0419 at z = 4.3
AU - Perger, Krisztina
AU - Frey, Sándor
AU - Gabányi, Krisztina É.
AU - An, Tao
AU - Britzen, Silke
AU - Cao, Hong-Min
AU - Cseh, Dávid
AU - Dennett-Thorpe, Jane
AU - Gurvits, Leonid I.
AU - Hong, Xiao-Yu
AU - Hook, Isobel M.
AU - Paragi, Zsolt
AU - Schilizzi, Richard T.
AU - Yang, Jun
AU - Zhang, Yingkang
N1 - This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated versionKrisztina Perger, Sándor Frey, Krisztina É Gabányi, Tao An, Silke Britzen, Hong-Min Cao, Dávid Cseh, Jane Dennett-Thorpe, Leonid I Gurvits, Xiao-Yu Hong, Isobel M Hook, Zsolt Paragi, Richard T Schilizzi, Jun Yang, Yingkang Zhang; Constraining the radio jet proper motion of the high-redshift quasar J2134−0419 at z = 4.3, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 477, Issue 1, 11 June 2018, Pages 1065–1070, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty837 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/477/1/1065/4961150
PY - 2018/6/11
Y1 - 2018/6/11
N2 - To date, PMN J2134-0419 (at a redshift z = 4.33) is the second most distant quasar known with a milliarcsecond-scale morphology permitting direct estimates of the jet proper motion. Based on two-epoch observations, we constrained its radio jet proper motion using the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique. The observations were conducted with the European VLBI Network (EVN) at 5 GHz on 1999 November 26 and 2015 October 6. We imaged the central 10-pc scale radio jet emission and modeled its brightness distribution. By identifying a jet component at both epochs separated by 15.86 yr, a proper motion of μ = 0.035 ± 0.023 mas yr-1 is found. It corresponds to an apparent superluminal speed of βa = 4.1 ± 2.7 c. Relativistic beaming at both epochs suggests that the jet viewing angle with respect to the line of sight is smaller than 20°, with a minimum bulk Lorentz factor Γ = 4.3. The small value of the proper motion is in good agreement with the expectations from the cosmological interpretation of the redshift and the current cosmological model. Additionally we analyzed archival Very Large Array observations of J2143-0419 and found indication of a bent jet extending to ˜30 kpc.
AB - To date, PMN J2134-0419 (at a redshift z = 4.33) is the second most distant quasar known with a milliarcsecond-scale morphology permitting direct estimates of the jet proper motion. Based on two-epoch observations, we constrained its radio jet proper motion using the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique. The observations were conducted with the European VLBI Network (EVN) at 5 GHz on 1999 November 26 and 2015 October 6. We imaged the central 10-pc scale radio jet emission and modeled its brightness distribution. By identifying a jet component at both epochs separated by 15.86 yr, a proper motion of μ = 0.035 ± 0.023 mas yr-1 is found. It corresponds to an apparent superluminal speed of βa = 4.1 ± 2.7 c. Relativistic beaming at both epochs suggests that the jet viewing angle with respect to the line of sight is smaller than 20°, with a minimum bulk Lorentz factor Γ = 4.3. The small value of the proper motion is in good agreement with the expectations from the cosmological interpretation of the redshift and the current cosmological model. Additionally we analyzed archival Very Large Array observations of J2143-0419 and found indication of a bent jet extending to ˜30 kpc.
KW - radio continuum: galaxies
KW - galaxies: active
KW - galaxies: nuclei
KW - galaxies: high-redshift
KW - quasars: individual: PMN J2134-0419
U2 - 10.1093/mnras/sty837
DO - 10.1093/mnras/sty837
M3 - Journal article
VL - 477
SP - 1065
EP - 1070
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
SN - 0035-8711
IS - 1
ER -