Small-scale structures in Compact Steep-Spectrum and GHz-Peaked-Spectrum radio sources

Details Small-scale structures in Compact Steep-Spectrum and GHz-Peaked-Spectrum radio sources Small-scale structures in Compact Steep-Spectrum and GHz-Peaked-Spectrum radio sources

2000-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008288v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics; 16 Pages; 5 Figures; 6 Tables

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We determine the small-scale structure for a large sample of Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) and Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources and a sample of larger radio sources at 327 MHz using the technique of Inter-Planetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Ooty Radio Telescope. Our observations provide structural information on angular scales ranging from about 50 to a few hundred milliarcsec. We estimate the size and flux density of the scintillating components from the IPS observations. The fraction of flux density of the hotspots estimated from both the IPS observations as well as from interferometric observations for larger sources from the literature exhibits no significant dependence on either the radio luminosity or linear size for the high-luminosity sources. We examine the collimation of radio jets using the sizes of hotspots from both IPS and interferometric observations. The hotspot sizes do not exhibit a significant dependence on the overall linear size for the larger sources, although the CSS and GPS sources were earlier found to evolve in a self-similar way. The IPS observations show evidence of larger-scale structures compared to the known VLBI-scale structures in 8 CSS and GPS radio sources. We discuss the origin of these structures. We also examine the spectra of compact components in GPS sources using both IPS and interferometric measurements, and attempt to distinguish between different processes for explaining their low-frequency spectra.

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