Image:
Identified with the E galaxy UGC 12064 in the poor cluster Zw 2231.2+3732.
HST images of UGC 12064 show a prominent dust lane perpendicular to the jets.
At high resolution, the central region of 3C 449 is one of the classic
examples of weak-flavour twin jets
(Perley, Willis & Scott 1979,
Corwall & Perley 1984). These jets make up
the slightly fainter region between the two bright peaks in our image;
at higher resolution the peaks are resolved into extended components
with surface-brightness substantially less than the jets.
3C 449 is projected behind the faint HII region S 126 in our own galaxy.
When displayed at high contrast, our C20 image shows
faint radio emission from S 126 crosses the lower
half of the DRAGN (Andernach et al. 1992).
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J. P. Leahy
jpl@jb.man.ac.uk