A submillimetre difference between radio galaxies and radio quasars: evidence for quasar-heated dust and synchronized submillimetre and radio source activity

Details A submillimetre difference between radio galaxies and radio quasars: evidence for quasar-heated dust and synchronized submillimetre and radio source activity A submillimetre difference between radio galaxies and radio quasars: evidence for quasar-heated dust and synchronized submillimetre and radio source activity

2001-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111559v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 435

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 7 figures, MNRAS in press, typos corrected, refs updated

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05209.x

We present submillimetre photometry of 11 3CR and 6CE radio quasars of similar 151-MHz radio luminosity and redshifts to the radio galaxies studied at 1.3~2-times brighter accounting for possible synchrotron contamination. This difference is in quantitative agreement with a receding-torus unified scheme for radio sources in which the torus opening angle depends on quasar optical luminosity, provided that there is a close relationship between the optical and submillimetre luminosities. The implication is that quasar-heated dust dominates the submillimetre emission for powerful radio quasars at z~1.5. We find a significant anti-correlation between submillimetre/far-infrared luminosity L_FIR and radio source age in the sense that hyperluminous quasars tend to be associated with young (<10^7 yr) sources. This suggests that the processes controlling L_FIR are synchronized with the jet-triggering event and that L_FIR declines on a ~10^7 yr timescale. There is evidence for a small amount of obscuration in the hyperluminous quasars from reddening and associated or broad absorption lines. We speculate that shortly after jet triggering, dust is more widely distributed than at later times and is heated by the quasar nucleus and/or a short-lived synchronized starburst.

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