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2001A&A...373..100G - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 373, 100-105 (2001/7-1)

The Fanaroff-Riley transition and the optical luminosity of the host elliptical galaxy.

GOPAL-KRISHNA and WIITA P.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We show that a model for radio source dynamics we had earlier proposed can readily reproduce the relationship between the radio power division separating the two Fanaroff-Riley classes of extragalactic radio sources and the optical luminosity of the host galaxy, as found by Owen & Ledlow (1994, in the First Stromlo Symposium: The phisics of Active Galaxies, 319). In our scenario, when less powerful jets eventually slow down to the point that the advance of the working surface (i.e., hotspot) becomes subsonic with respect to the external gas, the jet's collimation is severely weakened. This criterion distinguishes the powerful and well collimated FR II sources from the weaker sources producing the less collimated FR I type morphologies.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD - galaxies: jets - galaxies: nuclei - radio continuum: galaxies

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