Lw. Looney et Mj. Hardcastle, Subarcsecond imaging of 3C 123: 108 GHz continuum observations of the radio hot spots, ASTROPHYS J, 534(1), 2000, pp. 172-179
We present the results of subarcsecond 108 GHz continuum interferometric ob
servations toward the radio-luminous galaxy 3C 123. Using multiarray observ
ations, we utilize the high-u, v dynamic range of the BIMA millimeter array
to sample fully spatial scales ranging from 0 ".5 to 50 ". This allows us
to make one-to-one comparisons of millimeter-wavelength emission in the rad
io lobes and hot spots to VLA centimeter observations at 1.4, 4.9, 8.4, and
15 GHz. At 108 GHz, the bright, eastern double hot spot in the southern lo
be is resolved. This is only the second time that a multiple hot spot regio
n has been resolved in the millimeter regime. We model the synchrotron spec
tra of the hot spots and radio lobes using simple broken power-law models w
ith high-energy cutoffs and discuss the hot spot spectra and their implicat
ions for models of multiple hot spot formation.