Image:
A classic relaxed double. Unlike the prototype 3C 310,
there is no compact core, although there is a relatively bright clump of
emission, possibly unresolved transversely, at the position of the host
galaxy (marked with a red dot).
The compact source just to the east of the host galaxy is probably an
unrelated background object; there is nothing visible on the Palomar Sky
survey there.
Sometimes 3C314.1 is claimed to be in a galaxy cluster,
but measurement of the
local density of galaxies by Allington-Smith
et al. (1993) found no sign of this; in fact 3C 314.1 has fewer neighbours
than average for a large elliptical galaxy.
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J. P. Leahy
jpl@jb.man.ac.uk