Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545

In this paper, we test the possibility that the structure of the largest radio galaxy J1420-0545 may have been formed by restarted rather than primary jet activity. This hypothesis was motivated by the unusual morphological properties of the source consisting of two edge-brightened, narrow, highly c...

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Main Authors: Jamrozy, M., Machalski, J., Nikiel-Wroczynski, B., Intema, Hubertus
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74261
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author Jamrozy, M.
Machalski, J.
Nikiel-Wroczynski, B.
Intema, Hubertus
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description In this paper, we test the possibility that the structure of the largest radio galaxy J1420-0545 may have been formed by restarted rather than primary jet activity. This hypothesis was motivated by the unusual morphological properties of the source consisting of two edge-brightened, narrow, highly collinear, and symmetric lobes, thus suggesting an almost ballistic propagation of powerful jets into a particularly low-density external medium. New observations made with the VLA together with the currently available gleam and TGSS ADR1 data releases allow the detection of an excess emission at low frequencies. An extracted part (88 MHz-200 MHz) of the spectrum of the emission is fitted with the dynage model, giving a forecast for the environmental conditions and the energetic requirements for the presumed old cocoon related to a preceding epoch of jet activity.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-742612019-07-22T05:17:39Z Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545 Jamrozy, M. Machalski, J. Nikiel-Wroczynski, B. Intema, Hubertus In this paper, we test the possibility that the structure of the largest radio galaxy J1420-0545 may have been formed by restarted rather than primary jet activity. This hypothesis was motivated by the unusual morphological properties of the source consisting of two edge-brightened, narrow, highly collinear, and symmetric lobes, thus suggesting an almost ballistic propagation of powerful jets into a particularly low-density external medium. New observations made with the VLA together with the currently available gleam and TGSS ADR1 data releases allow the detection of an excess emission at low frequencies. An extracted part (88 MHz-200 MHz) of the spectrum of the emission is fitted with the dynage model, giving a forecast for the environmental conditions and the energetic requirements for the presumed old cocoon related to a preceding epoch of jet activity. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74261 10.3847/1538-4357/aa9182 Institute of Physics Publishing fulltext
spellingShingle Jamrozy, M.
Machalski, J.
Nikiel-Wroczynski, B.
Intema, Hubertus
Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545
title Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545
title_full Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545
title_fullStr Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545
title_full_unstemmed Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545
title_short Reassessment of an Origin of the Radio Structure of J1420-0545
title_sort reassessment of an origin of the radio structure of j1420-0545
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74261