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高红移FRII射电源:大尺度X射线环境

High redshift FRII radio sources: large-scale X-ray environment

Elena Belsole, Diana M. Worrall, Martin J. Hardcastle, Judith H. Croston

摘要:

我们研究了红移在0.45和1之间的20个强射电星系和类星体周围环境的性质。利用XMM-牛顿和钱德拉观测,我们探测团簇气体的空间分布和温度。我们发现,在我们的样本的红移范围内,超过60%的强射电源位于X射线光度大于10^44 erg/s的星系团中,除了一个窄线射电星系外,所有的窄线射电星系都位于星系团环境中,因为它们的核辐射被环面所掩盖。在统计的不确定性,我们发现没有显着的差异,作为一个功能的无线电喷流的视线方向的环境属性。这与统一方案是一致的。我们的研究结果有重要的影响集群调查,集群周围强大的无线电源往往被排除在X射线和Sunyaev-Zeldovich调查的星系团,从而可以引入一个重要的偏差集群光度函数。大多数的射电源被发现接近压力平衡与环境中,他们的谎言,但两个低激发的样品射电星系被观察到的压力不足。这可能是第一次观测到在一些强大的射电星系的叶中存在非辐射粒子的迹象。我们发现,在我们的样品的红移范围内的射电源周围的集群有一个陡峭的熵-温度关系比本地集群,和斜率是一致的自相似的引力加热模型的集群气体的预测。这表明,活动星系核的选择发现系统受活动星系核反馈的影响小于当地平均水平。(节录)

英文摘要:

We investigate the properties of the environment around 20 powerful radio galaxies and quasars at redshifts between 0.45 and 1. Using XMM-Newton and Chandra observations we probe the spatial distribution and the temperature of the cluster gas. We find that more than 60 per cent of powerful radio sources in the redshift range of our sample lie in a cluster of X-ray luminosity greater than 10^44 erg/s, and all but one of the narrow-line radio galaxies, for which the emission from the nucleus is obscured by a torus, lie in a cluster environment. Within the statistical uncertainties we find no significant difference in the properties of the environment as a function of the orientation to the line of sight of the radio jet. This is in agreement with unification schemes. Our results have important implications for cluster surveys, as clusters around powerful radio sources tend to be excluded from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich surveys of galaxy clusters, and thus can introduce an important bias in the cluster luminosity function. Most of the radio sources are found close to pressure balance with the environment in which they lie, but the two low-excitation radio galaxies of the sample are observed to be under-pressured. This may be the first observational indication for the presence of non-radiative particles in the lobes of some powerful radio galaxies. We find that the clusters around radio sources in the redshift range of our sample have a steeper entropy-temperature relation than local clusters, and the slope is in agreement with the predictions of self-similar gravitational heating models for cluster gas infall. This suggests that selection by AGN finds systems less affected by AGN feedback than the local average.(Abridged)

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