Distant FR I radio galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: implications for the cosmological evolution of radio-loud AGN

Details Distant FR I radio galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: implications for the cosmological evolution of radio-loud AGN Distant FR I radio galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: implications for the cosmological evolution of radio-loud AGN

2001-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108440v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 328 (2001) 897

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX, 6 pages, 3 figs. To appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04947.x

Deep and high resolution radio observations of the Hubble Deep Field and flanking fields have shown the presence of two distant edge-darkened FR I radio galaxies, allowing for the first time an estimate of their high redshift space density. If it is assumed that the space density of FR I radio galaxies at z>1 is similar to that found in the local universe, then the chance of finding two FR I radio galaxies at these high radio powers in such a small area of sky is <1%. This suggests that these objects were significantly more abundant at z>1 than at present, effectively ruling out the possibility that FR I radio sources undergo no cosmological evolution. We suggest that FR I and FR II radio galaxies should not be treated as intrinsically distinct classes of objects, but that the cosmological evolution is simply a function of radio power with FR I and FR II radio galaxies of similar radio powers undergoing similar cosmological evolutions. Since low power radio galaxies have mainly FR I morphologies and high power radio galaxies have mainly FR II morphologies, this results in a generally stronger cosmological evolution for the FR IIs than the FR Is. We believe that additional support from the V/Vmax test for evolving and non-evolving populations of FR IIs and FR Is respectively is irrelevant, since this test is sensitive over very different redshift ranges for the two classes.

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