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在本地宇宙中寻找垂死的射电源

In search of dying radio sources in the local universe

P. Parma, M. Murgia, H. R. de Ruiter, R. Fanti, K. -H. Mack, F. Govoni

摘要:

到目前为止,我们所知道的死亡源很少,大概是因为死亡阶段在厘米波长处很短。因此,我们设法改进关于已停止活动或间歇活动的放射源的统计数字。后一种来源将部分由早期活动阶段遗留下来的化石射电等离子体,加上最近重新启动的核心和射电喷流组成。改进垂死源的统计将使我们更好地掌握射电源的演变,特别是无线电活动的频率和时间尺度。我们已经使用了WENSS和NVSS的调查,为了找到源陡峭的光谱指数,与附近的椭圆星系。在互相关中,我们目前只使用未解析的源,在1.4 GHz的通量密度大于10 mJy。这样得到的11个候选者在各种配置的VLA中进行了观察,以确认光谱的陡峭程度,并检查是否存在平坦光谱核心和喷流等活动结构,也许在低水平。我们估计的持续时间的活动和遗迹阶段的建模综合无线电频谱的频谱演变的标准模型。我们已经发现了六个垂死的来源和三个重新启动的来源,而剩下的两个候选人仍然没有得到解决,也与新的VLA数据,可能是紧凑的陡谱源,具有异常陡峭的频谱。根据光谱拟合,活跃期的典型年龄在10^7 - 10^8年之间。对于我们的垂死源样本,遗迹阶段的年龄平均比活动阶段短一个数量级。

英文摘要:

Up till now very few dying sources were known, presumably because the dying phase is short at centimeter wavelengths. We therefore have tried to improve the statistics on sources that have ceased to be active, or are intermittently active. The latter sources would partly consist of a fossil radio plasma left over from an earlier phase of activity, plus a recently restarted core and radio jets. Improving the statistics of dying sources will give us a better handle on the evolution of radio sources, in particular the frequency and time scales of radio activity. We have used the WENSS and NVSS surveys, in order to find sources with steep spectral indices, associated with nearby elliptical galaxies. In the cross correlation we presently used only unresolved sources, with flux densities at 1.4 GHz larger than 10 mJy. The eleven candidates thus obtained were observed with the VLA in various configurations, in order to confirm the steepness of the spectra, and to check whether active structures like flat-spectrum cores and jets are present, perhaps at low levels. We estimated the duration of the active and relic phases by modelling the integrated radio spectra using the standard models of spectral evolution. We have found six dying sources and three restarted sources, while the remaining two candidates remain unresolved also with the new VLA data and may be Compact Steep Spectrum sources, with an unusually steep spectrum. The typical age of the active phase, as derived by spectral fits, is in the range 10^7 - 10^8 years. For our sample of dying sources, the age of the relic phase is on average shorter by an order of magnitude than the active phase.

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