BL Lacertae objects, Fanaroff-Riley type I radio sources, and cluster cooling flows

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Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...411...55s&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 411, no. 1, p. 55-66.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Active Galactic Nuclei, Bl Lacertae Objects, Cooling Flows (Astrophysics), Galactic Clusters, Intergalactic Media, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Active Galaxies, Electron Scattering, Gas Density, Line Of Sight, Optical Thickness

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The correctness of the view that the Fanaroff-Riley type I (F-R I) radio galaxies and the BL Lac objects are intrinsically the same and that the strong emission seen in BL Lac may be the result of beaming of radiation from the galactic nucleus is examined. Expressions are derived for the surface brightness of scattered beams of polarized or unpolarized radiation, and the expected scattered light surface is calculated assuming the beams have spectra and fluxes consistent with those observed for BL Lac objects. The models are compared to recent observations of lobes of excess, polarized blue light in Cy-A, and observations of lobes of UV light in the central regions of the cD galaxies in A1795 and A2597. It was found that the models predict scattered surface brightnesses in reasonable agreement with those observed. If these lobes are indeed scattered light, this would indicate that F-R I radio galaxies do possess beams of radiation with apparent luminosities similar to BL Lac objects and that the radiation is actively beamed and not merely obscured by a torus of dust around the nucleus.

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