Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-09
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 347 (2004) 771
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 31 figures, MNRAS in press, (all enquiries to Clive Tadhunter (c.tadhunter@sheffield.ac.uk))
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07195.x
We present spectroscopic observations of a complete sub-sample of 13 low-luminosity radio galaxies selected from the 2Jy sample. The underlying continuum in these sources is carefully modelled in order to make a much-needed comparison between the emission line and continuum properties of FRIs with those of other classes of radio sources. We find that 5 galaxies in the sample show a measurable UV excess: 2 of the these sources are BL Lacs and in the remaining 3 galaxies we argue that the most likely contributor to the UV excess is a young stellar component. Excluding the BL Lacs, we therefore find that \~30% of the sample show evidence for young stars, which is similar to the results obtained for higher luminosity samples. We compare our results with far-infrared measurements in order to investigate the far-infrared-starburst link. The nature of the optical-radio correlations is investigated in light of this new available data and, in contrast to previous studies, we find that the FRI sources follow the correlations with a similar slope to that found for the FRIIs. Finally, we compare the luminosity of the emission lines in the FRI and BL Lac sources and find a significant difference in the [OIII] line luminosities of the two groups. Our results are discussed in the context of the unified schemes.
Morganti Rafaella
Robinson T. G.
Tadhunter Clive N.
Villar-Martin Montse
Wills Karen A.
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