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ATESP 5 GHz无线电调查。III。射电星系的4.8、8.6和19 GHz跟踪观测

The ATESP 5 GHz radio survey. III. 4.8, 8.6 and 19 GHz follow-up observations of radio galaxies

I. Prandoni, H. R. de Ruiter, R. Ricci, P. Parma, L. Gregorini, R. D. Ekers

摘要:

[摘要]亚mJy射电群的物理和演化特性尚不完全清楚。ATESP 5 GHz样品的无线电/光学分析揭示了一类重要的紧凑的平坦/倒置的无线电频谱源与早期型星系的红移2。这样的源最有可能是由活动星系核触发的,但它们的观测特性与标准射电星系群的观测特性并不完全一致。在目前的工作中,我们的目标是更好地了解这样的源的无线电频谱,并最终的活动星系核的性质在次毫焦耳通量水平。我们利用ATCA获得了与早型星系有关的ATESP射电源代表性子样本(26个S>0.6 mJy的天体)的多频(4.8,8.6和19 GHz)准同步观测。这可以让我们深入了解工作中的吸积/辐射机制,因为不同的制度在无线电域中显示不同的光谱特征。从射电频谱的分析中,我们发现我们的源很可能是喷流主导的系统。ADAF模型被排除在高频数据之外,而ADAF+喷流情景仍然与平坦/适度倒频谱源一致,但不需要解释数据。我们将我们的样本与高频率(>20 GHz)选择的调查进行了比较,发现光谱特性与从Massardi等人(2008)样本中提取的更明亮(S>500 mJy)的射电星系非常相似。与早期类型星系相关的ATESP 5 GHz源的线性尺寸也经常与较亮的B2和3C射电星系一致,可能有一个非常紧凑的组件,至少部分与(模糊的)无线电安静类星体和/或低功率BL Lac有关。

英文摘要:

[Abridged] Physical and evolutionary properties of the sub-mJy radio population are not entirely known. The radio/optical analysis of the ATESP 5 GHz sample has revealed a significant class of compact flat/inverted radio-spectrum sources associated to early-type galaxies up to redshift 2. Such sources are most plausibly triggered by an AGN, but their observational properties are not entirely consistent with those of standard radio galaxy populations. In the present work we aim at a better understanding of the radio spectra of such sources and ultimately of the nature of AGNs at sub-mJy flux levels. We used the ATCA to get multi-frequency (4.8, 8.6 and 19 GHz) quasi-simultaneous observations for a representative sub-sample of ATESP radio sources associated with early-type galaxies (26 objects with S>0.6 mJy). This can give us insight into the accretion/radiative mechanism that is at work, since different regimes display different spectral signatures in the radio domain. From the analysis of the radio spectra, we find that our sources are most probably jet-dominated systems. ADAF models are ruled out by the high frequency data, while ADAF+jet scenarios are still consistent with flat/moderately inverted-spectrum sources, but are not required to explain the data. We compared our sample with high (>20 GHz) frequency selected surveys, finding spectral properties very similar to the ones of much brighter (S>500 mJy) radio galaxies extracted from the Massardi et al. (2008) sample. Linear sizes of ATESP 5 GHz sources associated with early type galaxies are also often consistent with the ones of brighter B2 and 3C radio galaxies, with possibly a very compact component that could be associated at least in part to (obscured) radio-quiet quasar-like objects and/or low power BL Lacs.

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