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致密弱射电源的特性与堆积角尺寸的关系

Properties of Compact Faint Radio Sources as a Function of Angular Size from Stacking

Ryan S. Johnston, Jeroen M. Stil, Ben W. Keller

摘要:

活动星系核(AGN)提供能量的射电源的偏振特性引起了人们的极大关注,因为磁场在这些源的物理中具有重要意义,它们可以用作视线上等离子体的探针,并且可能成为宇宙微波背景偏振测量的污染物。对于这些应用中的每一个,更好地理解与源特性相关的偏振统计是至关重要的。在本文中,我们得到的中值分数极化,$Π_{0, \rm med}$,大样本的1.4 GHz的流量密度$6.6 < S_{1.4} < 70$ mJy的无线电源,通过堆叠1.4 GHz的NVSS极化强度作为角尺寸的函数,从第一次调查。分析了去卷积平均角尺寸为1.8”至8.2”的五个样品和两个对称双源样品。这些样品代表了大多数小于或接近mJy射电源群的中值角尺寸的源。我们发现,在1.4 GHz处,中值分数极化$Π_{0,\rm med}$是小于~5”的源角尺寸的强函数,而对于高达~8”的较大源,是角尺寸的弱函数。我们解释我们的结果作为AGN宿主星系和它的环星系介质内的去极化。低频无线电频谱的曲率被发现与$Π_{0,\rm med}$反相关,进一步表明去极化与源有关。

英文摘要:

The polarization properties of radio sources powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) have attracted considerable attention because of the significance of magnetic fields in the physics of these sources, their use as probes of plasma along the line of sight, and as a possible contaminant of polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background. For each of these applications, a better understanding of the statistics of polarization in relation to source characteristics is crucial. In this paper, we derive the median fractional polarization, $Π_{0, \rm med}$, of large samples of radio sources with 1.4 GHz flux density $6.6 < S_{1.4} < 70$ mJy, by stacking 1.4 GHz NVSS polarized intensity as a function of angular size derived from the FIRST survey. Five samples with deconvolved mean angular size 1.8" to 8.2" and two samples of symmetric double sources are analyzed. These samples represent most sources smaller than or near the median angular size of the mJy radio source population We find that the median fractional polarization $Π_{0,\rm med}$ at 1.4 GHz is a strong function of source angular size less than ~5" and a weak function of angular size for larger sources up to ~8". We interpret our results as depolarization inside the AGN host galaxy and its circumgalactic medium. The curvature of the low-frequency radio spectrum is found to anti-correlate with $Π_{0,\rm med}$, a further sign that depolarization is related to the source.

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