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Light-year Scale Radio Cores in Four LINER Galaxies

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The LINER galaxies NGC 2911, NGC 3079, NGC 3998, and NGC 6500 were observed at 5 GHz with the European VLBI Network at a resolution of 5 milliarcsecond and found to possess flat-spectrum, variable, high-brightness temperature (TB>108T_{\rm B} > 10^8 K) radio cores. These radio characteristics reinforce the view that these LINERs host central engines associated with active galactic nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201505,
  title  = {Light-year Scale Radio Cores in Four LINER Galaxies},
  author = {Mercedes E. Filho and Peter D. Barthel and Luis C. Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201505},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages