Radio Continuum Imaging of High Redshift Radio Galaxies

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1996-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610157v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ (Supplement) (paper no. 33814)

Scientific paper

10.1086/312973

We present sensitive radio continuum images at high resolution of 37 radio galaxies at z > 2. The observations were made with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 4.7 GHz and 8.2 GHz, with typical resolutions of 0.45'' and 0.25'', respectively. Images of total and polarized intensity, and spectral index, are presented. Values for total and polarized intensity, and values of rotation measures, are tabulated for the hot spots in each source. The positions of the radio nuclei are tabulated, along with a variety of other source parameters. Analysis of the polarization data reveals large rotation measures (RMs) towards six sources. We argue that the RMs are due to magnetized, ionized gas local to the radio sources. The magnitude of the RMs are in excess of 1000 rad/m/m (rest frame) for these sources. Drawing an analogy to a class of lower redshift radio galaxies with extreme RMs, we speculate that these sources may be at the centers of dense, X-ray emitting cluster atmospheres.

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