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Title: | Origin of X-shaped radio-sources: further insights from the properties of their host galaxies | Authors: | Melissa Gillone CAPETTI, Alessandro ROSSI, Paola |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 587 | First Page: | A25 | Abstract: | We analyze the properties of a sample of X-shaped radio-sources (XRSs). These objects show, in addition to the main lobes, a pair of wings producing their peculiar radio morphology. We obtain our sample by selecting from the initial list of Cheung (2007, AJ, 133, 2097) the 53 galaxies with the better defined wings and with available SDSS images. We identified the host galaxies and measured their optical position angle, obtaining a positive result in 22 cases. The orientation of the secondary radio structures shows a strong connection with the optical axis, with all (but one) wing forming a angle larger than 40 degrees with the host major axis. The probability that this is compatible with a uniform distribution is P = 0.9 10E-4. Spectra are available from the SDSS for 28 XRSs. We modeled them to extract information on their emission lines and stellar population properties. The sample is formed by approximately the same number of high and low excitation galaxies (HEG and LEG); this classification is essential for a proper comparison with non-winged radio-galaxies. XRSs follow the same relations between radio and line luminosity defined by radio-galaxies in the 3C sample. While in HEGs a young stellar population is often present, this is not detected in the 13 LEGs, again in agreement with the properties of non XRSs. The lack of young stars in LEGs support the idea that they did not experiences a recent gas rich merger. The connection between the optical axis and the wings orientation, as well as the stellar population and emission lines properties, provide further support for an hydro-dynamic origin of the radio-wings (for example associated with the expansion of the radio cocoon in an asymmetric external medium) rather than with a change of orientation of the jet axis. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26030 | URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06002v1 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2016/03/aa27244-15/aa27244-15.html |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201527244 | Fulltext: | open |
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