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Morphologies in Mpc-Size Radio Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

L. Saripalli ,
R. Subrahmanyan  and
R. W. Hunstead
L. Saripalli
Affiliation:
1 Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India
R. Subrahmanyan
Affiliation:
2 Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560 080, India
R. W. Hunstead
Affiliation:
3 Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

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The extended radio structures or lobes found in edge-brightened radio galaxies represent interactions with the ambient medium over the source lifetimes. Their study probes the temporal evolution in the radio sources and the properties of the ambient medium encountered at different locations. Previous studies (Leahy & Williams, 1984; Leahy et al., 1989) involved radio galaxies with sizes ≃ 400 kpc, and revealed radio morphologies with a variety of off-axis distortions that could be interpreted as due to different ways in which the lobes interact with the galactic halos. Such studies are lacking for radio galaxies having Megaparsec sizes, which extend to distances well beyond the observed galactic halos and are suspected of evolving in a different regime (Baldwin, 1982). Towards learning the evolution of radio galaxies in this size regime, we have carried out a study of a complete sample of Mpc-size radio galaxies; details are presented in Subrahmanyan, Saripalli & Hunstead (to appear in MNRAS, 1996).

Type
Radio Sources and their Environment
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 313 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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