Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999newar..43..639g&link_type=abstract
New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 43, Issue 8-10, p. 639-642.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
We have made VLA radio total intensity and polarisation observations in the A, B and C configurations at 1665, 1435, 1365 and 1295 MHz and in the B, C and D configurations at 8465 and 8415 MHz to study the environment of the powerful radio galaxy Hercules A. We have also made ROSAT PSPC and HRI X-ray observations to study the intracluster gas in the Hercules A cluster. We have mapped the Faraday rotation field with high resolution (/1.''4~2.5 h-1100 kpc for q0=0), and combined this with the X-ray data on the gas distribution in order to map the magnetic field of the cluster. We have found that Hercules A exhibits a strong Laing-Garrington effect: the western side of the radio emission is more depolarised than the eastern side. The X-ray observations have revealed an extended X-ray emission elongated along the radio galaxy axis and a weak nuclear component. The Hercules A cluster is a cooling flow cluster, which appears isothermal at large radii. Comparing the Faraday dispersion profile with the X-ray estimated density profile, we found that the magnetic field is decreasing with radius and we have estimated a central value of 3<~B0 (μG) <~9. The estimated core electron density of n0~=6.6x103 m-3 reveals a dense environment in which Hercules A is situated.
Gizani Nectaria A. B.
Leahy Patrick J.
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