Unification in the low radio luminosity regime; evidence from optical line emission

Details Unification in the low radio luminosity regime; evidence from optical line emission Unification in the low radio luminosity regime; evidence from optical line emission

2005-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505170v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 469-475

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09180.x

We address the question of whether or not the properties of all low-luminosity flat spectrum radio sources, not just the obvious BL Lac objects, are consistent with them being the relativistically beamed counterparts of the low radio luminosity radio galaxies (the Fanaroff-Riley type 1 - FRI). We compare the emission-line luminosities of a well studied sample of core-dominated radio sources with a matched sample of FR I radio galaxies. The emission lines in the core-dominated objects are on average significantly more luminous than those in the comparison sample, inconsistent with the simplest unified models in which there is no orientation dependence of the line emission. However, the results are equally consistent with a scenario in which, for the majority of objects, beaming has minimal effect on the observed core luminosities of a large fraction of the FRI population and that intrinsically stronger cores simply give rise to stronger emission lines. We conclude that FRI unification is much more complex than usually portrayed, and models combining beaming with an intrinsic relationship between core and emission line strengths need to be explored.

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