The pc-scale radio structure of MIR-observed radio galaxies

doi:10.1088/1674-4527/18/9/108

	The pc-scale radio structure of MIR-observed radio galaxies
	Yuan, Ye 1,2,3; Gu, Min-Fong 1,2; Chen, Yong-Jun 1,4
刊名	RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
	2018-08-01
卷号	18 期号:9 页码:16
关键词	galaxies: active galaxies: structure galaxies: general radio continuum: galaxies
ISSN号	1674-4527
DOI	10.1088/1674-4527/18/9/108
通讯作者	Yuan, Ye(yuany@shao.ac.cn)
英文摘要	We investigated the relationship between the accretion process and jet properties by utilizing very long baseline array (VLBA) and mid-infrared (MIR) data for a sample of 45 3CRR radio galaxies selected with a flux density at 178MHz > 16. 4 Jy, 5GHz very large array (VLA) core flux density >= 7mJy and MIR observations. The pc-scale radio structure at 5GHz is presented by using our VLBA observations for 21 sources acquired in February, 2016, the analysis of archival data for 16 objects and directly obtaining measurements for eight radio galaxies available from literatures. The accretion mode is constrained from the Eddington ratio with a dividing value of 0.01, which is estimated from the MIR-based bolometric luminosity and the black hole masses. While most Fanaroff-Riley type II radio galaxies (FRIIs) have higher Eddington ratio than Fanaroff-Riley type I radio galaxies (FRIs), we found that there is indeed no single correspondence between the FR morphology and accretion mode with eight FRIIs at low accretion rate and two FRIs at high accretion rate. There is a significant correlation between the VLBA core luminosity at 5GHz and the Eddington ratio. Various morphologies are identified in our sample, including core only, single-sided core-jet and two-sided core-jet structures. We found that the higher accretion rate may be more likely related with the core-jet structure, thus generating a more extended jet. These results imply that the higher accretion rates are likely able to produce more powerful jets. There is a strong correlation between the MIR luminosity at 15 mu m and VLBA 5GHz core luminosity, in favor of the tight relation between the accretion disk and jets. In our sample, the core brightness temperature ranges from 10(9) to 10(13.38) K with a median value of 10(11.09) K, indicating that systematically the beaming effect may not be significant. The exceptional cases, FRIs at high accretion rates and FRIIs at low accretion rates, are exclusively at the high and low ends, respectively, of the distribution of the flux ratio for VLBA core to 178 MHz flux density. It is not impossible that the locations of these sources are due to the recent shining or weakening of their central engines (i.e., both accretion and jet).
WOS关键词	ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI ; X-RAY ; UNIFIED SCHEMES ; HOST GALAXIES ; FR-I ; QUASARS ; LUMINOSITY ; EVOLUTION ; EMISSION ; DICHOTOMY
WOS研究方向	Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种	英语
出版者	NATL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES, CHIN ACAD SCIENCES
WOS记录号	WOS:000445688500004
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/21355]
专题	中国科学院紫金山天文台
通讯作者	Yuan, Ye
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Astron Observ, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Astron Observ, Key Lab Res Galaxies & Cosmol, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Radio Astron, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yuan, Ye,Gu, Min-Fong,Chen, Yong-Jun. The pc-scale radio structure of MIR-observed radio galaxies[J]. RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,2018,18(9):16.
APA	Yuan, Ye,Gu, Min-Fong,&Chen, Yong-Jun.(2018).The pc-scale radio structure of MIR-observed radio galaxies.RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,18(9),16.
MLA	Yuan, Ye,et al."The pc-scale radio structure of MIR-observed radio galaxies".RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 18.9(2018):16.