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Discovery of an Optical Jet in the BL Lacertae Object 3C 371

Discovery of an Optical Jet in the BL Lacertae Object 3C 371

We have detected an optical jet in the BL Lac object 3C 371 that coincides with the radio jet in this object in the central few kiloparsecs. The most notable feature is a bright optical knot 3'' (4 kpc) from the nucleus that occurs at the location where the jet …