We observed the narrow-line quasar SDSS J094857.3+002225, which has the
highest known radio loudness for a narrow-line Seyfert~1 galaxy (NLS1), at
1.7--15.4 GHz with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). This is the first
very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) investigation for a radio-loud NLS1.
We independently found very high brightness temperatures from (1) its
compactness in a VLBA image and (2) flux variation among the VLBA observation,
our other observations with the VLBA, and the Very Large Array (VLA). A Doppler
factor larger than 2.7--5.5 was required to meet an intrinsic limit of
brightness temperature in the rest frame. This is evidence for highly
relativistic nonthermal jets in an NLS1. We suggest that the Doppler factor is
one of the most crucial parameters determining the radio loudness of NLS1s. The
accretion disk of SDSS J094857.3+002225 is probably in the very high state,
rather than the high/soft state, by analogy with X-ray binaries with strong
radio outbursts and superluminal jets such as GRS 1915+105.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PAS
