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巨射电源的谱年龄

Spectral Ages of Giant Radio Sources

C. Konar, D. J. Saikia, M. Jamrozy, J. Machalski

摘要:

利用巨射电望远镜(GMRT)和甚小线阵(VLA)的多频观测,对选定的巨射电源(GRS)样品沿波瓣的连续条带进行了光谱突变测定,以估算其光谱年龄。我们的十个源样本的波瓣中检测到的无线电发射的最大光谱年龄估计的中位数值为$\sim$ 20 Myr。这些GRS的光谱年龄明显比较小的来源。除了一个源(J1313+6937)外,所有源的光谱年龄都随着与热点区域的距离而逐渐增加,这证实了粒子的加速主要发生在热点区域。大多数GRS在热点区域不表现出零光谱年龄。这很可能主要是由于分辨率相对较低而造成的更长时间的发射造成的污染。进样光谱指数范围为$\sim$ 0.55 - 0.88,中值为$\sim$ 0.6。我们发现,注入光谱指数似乎与光度和/或红移以及线性尺寸。

英文摘要:

Multifrequency observations with the GMRT and the VLA are used to determine the spectral breaks in consecutive strips along the lobes of a sample of selected giant radio sources (GRSs) in order to estimate their spectral ages. The maximum spectral ages estimated for the detected radio emission in the lobes of our sample of ten sources has a median value of $\sim$20 Myr. The spectral ages of these GRSs are significantly older than smaller sources. In all but one source (J1313+6937) the spectral age gradually increases with distance from the hotspot regions, confirming that acceleration of the particles mainly occurs in the hotspots. Most of the GRSs do not exhibit zero spectral ages in the hotspots. This is likely to be largely due to contamination by more extended emission due to relatively modest resolutions. The injection spectral indices range from $\sim$0.55 to 0.88 with a median value of $\sim$0.6. We show that the injection spectral index appears to be correlated with luminosity and/or redshift as well as with linear size.

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