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Here we propose to observe a radio source associated with a dual AGN candidate in a relatively nearby Universe, at a redshift of z=0.064. At this redshift, the ~8" angular separation between the two objects (Source 1 = SDSS J085312.85+162616.0 and Source 2 = SDSS J085312.34+162619.4) corresponds to a projected linear distance of ~10 kpc. This candidate was selected with a novel method (Lena et al., ApJ, in preparation), by searching for interacting galaxies characterised by a maximum separation of ten times the sum of their Petrosian radii in the SDSS Data Release 7 (Abazajian et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543) in the optical, and then cross-matching them with X-ray objects in the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalog (2XMMi, Watson et al. 2009, A&A, 493, 339).

This data is part of the archive of VLBI data maintained by JIVE on behalf of the EVN, a network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa. The EVN archive itself has the DOI https://doi.org/10.17616/R3Z197