3C263 = B1137+660

• FR II quasar at z=0.646
• Overall linear size 198/h kpc (Hubble constant H = 100h km/s/Mpc)
• Prominent hot spot and straight jet in East lobe
• Unusually large lobe-length asymmetry
• Superluminal motion at (1.3/h)c has been detected in the nuclear radio source
• VLA 4.9 GHz image at 0.36 arcsec resolution

See also Deep VLA Imaging of Twelve Extended 3CR Quasars, by Alan H. Bridle, David H. Hough, Colin J. Lonsdale, Jack O. Burns and Robert A. Laing, The Astronomical Journal, 108, 766-820 (1994).

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