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射电源核的演化及其扩展射电源

On the Evolution of the Cores of Radio Sources and Their Extended Radio Emission

Zunli Yuan, Jiancheng Wang

摘要:

本文工作的目的是通过射电光度函数(即射电光度函数)来确定射电强活动星系核(AGN)及其核心的演化和可能的协同演化。分别为总RLF和核心RLF)。利用1063个低射频射电噪活动星系核的大样本,研究了陡谱射电源408 MHz的射电光度函数。我们的研究结果支持光度依赖的演变。使用完整样品3CRR的芯磁通密度数据,我们调查在5.0 GHz的芯RLF。基于组合样本与不完整的核心通量数据,我们还估计核心RLF使用修改后的完整性因子。这两个结果是一致的,并表明随着红移的增加,射电核的同动数密度呈现出持续的下降,意味着负的密度演化。我们发现,在408 MHz频段,核心RLF与总RLF有明显的差异,主要由扩展瓣贡献,这意味着核心和扩展瓣在射电辐射中不能共同演化。

英文摘要:

The work in this paper aims at determining the evolution and possible co-evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their cores via their radio luminosity functions (i.e., total and core RLF respectively). Using a large combined sample of 1063 radio-loud AGNs selected at low radio frequency, we investigate the radio luminosity function (RLF) at 408 MHz of steep-spectrum radio sources. Our results support a luminosity-dependent evolution. Using core flux density data of the complete sample 3CRR, we investigate the core RLF at 5.0 GHz. Based on the combined sample with incomplete core flux data, we also estimate the core RLF using a modified factor of completeness. Both results are consistent and show that the comoving number density of radio cores displays a persistent decline with redshift, implying a negative density evolution. We find that the core RLF is obviously different from the total RLF at 408 MHz band which is mainly contributed by extended lobes, implying that the cores and extended lobes could not be co-evolving at radio emission.

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