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    ATLBS extended source sample: The evolution in radio source morphology with flux density

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    Saripalli, L.
    Subrahmanyan, R.
    Thorat, K.
    Ekers, Ronald
    Hunstead, R.
    Johnston, H.
    Sadler, E.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Saripalli, L. and Subrahmanyan, R. and Thorat, K. and Ekers, R.D. and Hunstead, R.W. and Johnston, H.M. and Sadler, E.M. 2012. ATLBS extended source sample: The evolution in radio source morphology with flux density. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 199 (2): pp. 1-69.
    Source Title
    Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
    ISSN
    0004-637X
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27077
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Based on the Australia Telescope Low Brightness Survey (ATLBS) we present a sample of extended radio sources and derive morphological properties of faint radio sources. 119 radio galaxies form the ATLBS-Extended Source Sample (ATLBS-ESS) consisting of all sources exceeding 30” in extent and integrated flux densities exceeding 1 mJy. We give structural details along with information on galaxy identifications and source classifications. The ATLBS-ESS, unlike samples with higher flux-density limits, has almost equal fractions of FR-I and FR-II radio galaxies, with a large fraction of the FR-I population exhibiting 3C31-type structures. Significant asymmetry in lobe extents appears to be a common occurrence in the ATLBS-ESS FR-I sources compared with FR-II sources. We present a sample of 22 FR-Is at z >; 0.5 with good structural information. The detection of several giant radio sources, with size exceeding 0.7 Mpc, at z > 1 suggests that giant radio sources are not less common at high redshifts. The ESS also includes a sample of 28 restarted radio galaxies. The relative abundance of dying and restarting sources is indicative of a model where radio sources undergo episodic activity in which an active phase is followed by a brief dying phase that terminates with restarting of the central activity; in any massive elliptical a few such activity cycles wherein adjacent events blend may constitute the lifetime of a radio source and such bursts of blended activity cycles may be repeated over the age of the host. The ATLBS-ESS includes a 2-Mpc giant radio galaxy with the lowest surface brightness lobes known to date.

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