Extended radio AGN at z ~ 1 in the ORELSE survey: The confining effect of dense environments

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العنوان: Extended radio AGN at z ~ 1 in the ORELSE survey: The confining effect of dense environments
المؤلفون: Shen, Lu, Liu, Guilin, Zhang, Mengfei, Lemaux, Brian C., Lubin, Lori M., Pelliccia, Debora, Moravec, Emily, Golden-Marx, Emmet G., Zhou, Hongyan, Fang, Wenjuan, Tomczak, Adam, McKean, John, Miller, Neal A., Fassnacht, Christopher D., Wu, Po-Feng, Kocevski, Dale D., Gal, Roy R., Hung, Denise, Squires, Gordon K
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف: Recent hydrodynamic simulations and observations of radio jets have shown that the surrounding environment has a large effect on their resulting morphology. To investigate this we use a sample of 50 Extended Radio Active Galactic Nuclei (ERAGN) detected in the Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) survey. These sources are all successfully cross-identified to galaxies within a redshift range of $0.55 \leq z \leq 1.35$, either through spectroscopic redshifts or accurate photometric redshifts. We find that ERAGN are more compact in high-density environments than those in low-density environments at a significance level of 4.5$\sigma$. Among a series of internal properties under our scrutiny, only the radio power demonstrates a positive correlation with their spatial extent. After removing the possible radio power effect, the difference of size in low- and high-density environments persists. In the global environment analyses, the majority (86\%) of high-density ERAGN reside in the cluster/group environment. In addition, ERAGN in the cluster/group central regions are preferentially compact with a small scatter in size, compared to those in the cluster/group intermediate regions and fields. In conclusion, our data appear to support the interpretation that the dense intracluster gas in the central regions of galaxy clusters plays a major role in confining the spatial extent of radio jets.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb5a0
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03343Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2009.03343
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv