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Original Paper
Evolutionary models of powerful radio galaxies
Article first published online: 3 FEB 2006
DOI: 10.1002/asna.200510514
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Bicknell, G. V. and Sutherland, R. S. (2006), Evolutionary models of powerful radio galaxies. Astronomische Nachrichten, 327: 235–240. doi: 10.1002/asna.200510514
Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 FEB 2006
- Article first published online: 3 FEB 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 15 NOV 2005
- Manuscript Received: 12 OCT 2005
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Keywords:
- galaxies: jets;
- radio continuum: galaxies
Abstract
In the past, extragalactic radio jets have been modelled as interacting with a smooth, hot interstellar medium. However, it is likely that the precursors of radio sources are major or minor mergers and the resultant debris from such an event will interact with the jets that result from the fuelling of the black hole. We describe here some recent work on the interactions of jets with clumpy interstellar media consisting of a log normal distribution of dense clouds. Important features of the simulations include radio morphologies typical of powerful radio galaxies at various stages of their evolution and persistent X-ray emission from shocked clouds which are the remnant of a circumnuclear disk. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)