Nuclear activity and the environments of nearby radio galaxies

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العنوان: Nuclear activity and the environments of nearby radio galaxies
المؤلفون: Dey, Arjun, Vanbreugel, Wil
المصدر: CASI
سنة النشر: 1993
المجموعة: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
مصطلحات موضوعية: ASTROPHYSICS
جغرافية الموضوع: Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available
الوصف: Much of our present understanding of galaxy evolution over a large redshift range is based on the study of samples selected on the basis of non-thermal radio emission. It is therefore necessary to understand the relationship between radio source activity and the host galaxy. Recent observations suggest that there is a connection between radio galaxy (RG) activity and radio galaxy evolution. For example, high-redshift RGs (z approx. greater than 0.7) show evidence for significant populations of young stars, and have optical continuum morphologies nearly always aligned with the radio axis (McCarthy et al. 1987; Chambers et al. 1987). This phenomenon is generally attributed to radio jet induced star formation (DeYoung 1989), but the lack of high S/N spectra of the galaxy continua, and recent detections of polarized light in a few objects make it hard to rule out other processes such as scattering or synchrotron radiation. A detailed study of the continuum light in the distant RGs is difficult as they are optically very faint. However, nearby RGs (z approx. less than 0.1) have bluer B-V colors than radio-quiet ellipticals, presumably due to the presence of young stellar populations (Smith and Heckman 1989) and several have extended UV continuum emitting regions along their radio axes (van Bruegel et al. 1985a, b, di Serego Alighieri et al. 1989), reminiscent of the alignment effect seen in the high redshift RGs. We have almost completed a continuum imaging survey of nearby (and therefore optically brighter), powerful RGs to study any possible relationships between the optical continuum light and radio source activity. In particular we are interested in (1) whether these lower redshift RGs shown any evidence of the alignment effect (in their rest-frame UV light) that is seen in the distant RGs, and (2) the effects that the radio source has on the environment of the host galaxy.
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العلاقة: Document ID: 19930017663; Accession ID: 93N26852; http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19930017663Test
الإتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19930017663Test
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رقم الانضمام: edsbas.81E83611
قاعدة البيانات: BASE