Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-cphqk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-13T07:30:29.930Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Depolarization Studies of Radio Sources and the Unified Scheme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

S.T. Garrington ,
G.F. Holmes  and
D.J. Saikia
S.T. Garrington
Affiliation:
The University of Manchester, NRAL Jodrell Bank, UK NCRA, TIFR, Pune, India
G.F. Holmes
Affiliation:
The University of Manchester, NRAL Jodrell Bank, UK NCRA, TIFR, Pune, India
D.J. Saikia
Affiliation:
The University of Manchester, NRAL Jodrell Bank, UK NCRA, TIFR, Pune, India

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In powerful FRII radio galaxies and quasars the polarization of the two radio lobes is often very asymmetric and strongly correlated with jet sidedness. These sources usually have one-sided jets and the lobe on the jet side depolarizes more slowly than the one on the counter-jet side (Laing 1988; Garrington et al. 1988). This correlation can be interpreted in terms of depolarization of the receding lobe by a halo of hot gas surrounding the radio source and is in the expected sense if the jet asymmetry is due to Doppler boosting.

Type
Unification Issues
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 397 - 399
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

Barthel, P.D. 1989, ApJ , 336, 606.Google Scholar
Bicknell, G.V. et al., 1990, ApJ , 354, 98.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Garrington, S.T., et al., 1988, Nature , 331, 147.Google Scholar
Laing, R.A., 1988, Nature , 331, 149.Google Scholar
Laing, R.A., 1993, in Astrophysical Jets, eds Burgarella, D., et al., CUP, p. 95 Google Scholar
McCarthy, P.J., van Breugel, W. and Kapahi, V.K., 1991, ApJ , 371,478.Google Scholar
Saikia, D.J., Junor, W., Cornwell, T.J., Muxlow, T.W.B., Shastri, P., 1990, MNRAS , 245, 408.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Saikia, D.J., Singal, A.K., Cornwell, T.J., 1987, MNRAS , 224, 379.Google Scholar