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射电星系中射电光度-机械能关联的大小依赖性

Size dependence of the radio luminosity - mechanical power correlation in radio galaxies

Stanislav Shabala, Leith Godfrey

摘要:

本文研究了活动星系核喷流中源射电光度与动能的关系。我们发现,忽略各种损失过程可以引入一个系统的偏差,从射电光度的射电星系样本推断的喷流功率。这种偏差可以通过考虑源的大小以及射电光度来校正;有效地源的大小作为源的年龄代理。基于一个由实测热点参数导出喷流功率的FR-Ⅱ射电源的样本,我们经验地确定了一个新的喷流功率表达式,它可以解释源的大小,Q_jet / 10^{36} W = 1.5(L_151 / 10^{27} W/Hz)^{0.8}(1+z)^{1.0}(D / kpc)^{0.58 \pm 0.17},其中D是源大小,L_151是151 MHz射电光度。通过比较一个通量有限和体积有限的样品,我们表明,任何派生的无线电光度喷流功率关系敏感地依赖于样品的性质,特别是源的大小分布和固有的样品中的大小-光度相关性。这种偏差将影响由波瓣射电光度导出的动力学光度函数的准确性,应谨慎对待。

英文摘要:

We examine the relationship between source radio luminosity and kinetic power in Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) jets. We show that neglecting various loss processes can introduce a systematic bias in the jet powers inferred from radio luminosities for a sample of radio galaxies. This bias can be corrected for by considering source size as well as radio luminosity; effectively the source size acts as a proxy for source age. Based on a sample of FR-II radio sources with jet powers derived from the measured hotspot parameters, we empirically determine a new expression for jet power that accounts for the source size, Q_jet / 10^{36} W = 1.5 (L_151 / 10^{27} W/Hz)^{0.8} (1+z)^{1.0} (D / kpc)^{0.58 \pm 0.17}, where D is source size and L_151 the 151 MHz radio luminosity. By comparing a flux-limited and volume-limited sample, we show that any derived radio luminosity - jet power relation depends sensitively on sample properties, in particular the source size distribution and the size-luminosity correlation inherent in the sample. Such bias will affect the accuracy of the kinetic luminosity function derived from lobe radio luminosities and should be treated with caution.

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