Shock heating in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 3801

Details Shock heating in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 3801 Shock heating in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 3801

Sep 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005cxo..prop.1997c&link_type=abstract

Chandra Proposal ID #07700460

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Chandra Proposal Id #07700460

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Shock heating by radio galaxies is thought to be an important means of transferring energy from active galactic nuclei to their environments. So far, the only direct observational evidence for strongly shocked gas in contact with a radio lobe is in the nearest low-power (FRI) radio galaxy Centaurus A (Kraft et al. 2003). Since low-power FRIs are the most common type of radio galaxy, there are important implications for the energetics of gas in elliptical galaxies and groups if shock heating by small FRIs is a universal process. We propose to investigate shock-heating in a second nearby FRI radio source, NGC 3801, with similar radio structure and environment to those of Cen A, in order to test whether the behaviour seen in Cen A is typical of small sources in poor environments.

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