The low-frequency properties of FR 0 radio galaxies
The low-frequency properties of FR 0 radio galaxies
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FR 0 射电星系的低频特性
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201936254
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
U. Groningen
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作者:
A. Capetti;R. D. Baldi;M. Brienza;R. Morganti;G. V. I. ;Italy;S. O. Physics;Astronomy;U. Southampton;UK.;D. Astronomia;U. Bologna;I. D. R. Astronomia;Italy Astron;The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy;The Netherlands.;U. Groningen
Using the alternative data release of the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS), we studied the low-frequency properties of FR 0 radio galaxies, the large population of compact radio sources associated with red massive early-type galaxies revealed by surveys at 1.4 GHz. We considered TGSS observations from FR0CAT, a sample formed by 104 FR 0s at z < 0.05: all but one of them are covered by the TGSS, and 43 of them are detected above a 5σ limit of 17.5 mJy. No extended emission has been detected around the FR 0s, corresponding to a luminosity limit of ≲4 × 1023 W Hz−1 over an area of 100 kpc × 100 kpc. All but eight FR 0s have a flat or inverted spectral shape (α < 0.5) between 150 MHz and 1.4 GHz: this spectral behavior confirms the general paucity of optically thin extended emission within the TGSS beam, as is expected for their compact 1.4 GHz morphology. Data at 5 GHz were used to build their radio spectra, which are also generally flat at higher frequencies. By focusing on a sub-sample of FR 0s with flux density > 50 mJy at 1.4 GHz, we found that ∼75% of them have a convex spectrum, but with a smaller curvature than the more powerful gigahertz peaked-spectrum sources (GPS). The typical FR 0s radio spectrum is better described by a gradual steepening toward high frequencies, rather than to a transition from an optically-thick to an optically-thin regime, possibly observed in only ∼15% of the sample.
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Baldi R
通讯作者:
Baldi R
影响因子:
6.5
作者:
van Haarlem, M. P.;Wise, M. W.;van Zwieten, J.
通讯作者:
van Zwieten, J.