Image:
The compact core is the relatively bright spot on the north
edge of the southern lobe.
The bright and compact hotspots in this famous object have been
studied by Rudnick (1988) and
Rudnick & Anderson (1990).
The bright southern hotspot has also been detected in the optical
Meisenheimer et al. 1997).
Our image puts the hotspots into context by showing the extensive
but faint bridge between the hotspots.
The host galaxy is not a typical elliptical. There is a rather strong
bar visible in the HST image
(Zirbel & Baum 1998), and there is
knotty structure in the UV which suggests star formation
(Hurt et al. 1999). However, this
could also be due to the large reflection nebula detected in optical
polarization,
which reveals that this classical narrow-line radio galaxy has a hidden
broad-line nucleus (Cohen et al. 1999).
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J. P. Leahy
jpl@jb.man.ac.uk