4C 39.24: discovery of a `giant' radio galaxy at z=1.88

Law-Green, J. D. B., Eales, Stephen Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-426X, Leahy, J. P., Rawlings, S. and Lacy, M. 1995. 4C 39.24: discovery of a `giant' radio galaxy at z=1.88. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 277 (3) , pp. 995-1005.

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Abstract

The radio source 4C 39.24 (6C 0905+399) is shown to be the north-preceding lobe of a 111-arcsec FR II `classical double' with an unusual asymmetric structure. The core of the radio galaxy has been identified with a galaxy at z=1.883+/-0.003, giving a projected linear size of 4C 39.24 of D=(689+/-4) h^-1 kpc (assuming H_0=100 h km s ^-1 Mpc^-1 and Omega=0.04), making it the most distant `giant' radio galaxy known. We suggest that the `quad-like' structure seen in the north-preceding radio lobe is caused by the multiple imaging by gravitational lensing of a single hotspot.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0035-8711
Related URLs:	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995MNRAS....
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/49131

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