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The Role of Environment in the Origin of Radio Emission from Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
Abstract
The influence of the environment on the origin of radio radiation from galaxies is studied by compairing the occurence of radio emission in galaxies in compact high density groups of Hickson (1982) with that in field galaxies of similar types. The study shows that the fractional luminosity functions of elliptical and spiral galaxies in compact groups are similar in shape to that of field galaxies but the probability of a compact group galaxy being a radio source is 5 to 10 times greater than that of an isolated galaxy of the same type. Radio Loud group ellipticals tend to be the optically brightest galaxy in the group independent of their absolute luminosity.
- Type
- VI. Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Activity
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 121: Observational Evidences of Activity of Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 411 - 414
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- Copyright © Reidel 1987