Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-16
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 503
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07510.x
We use a principal components analysis of radio-selected (3CRR, 6CE and 7CRS) AGN datasets to define two parameters related to low-frequency (151 MHz) radio luminosity L_151 and [OIII] luminosity L_[OIII]: a parameter alpha encoding the L_151 - L_[OIII] correlation and a parameter beta encoding scatter about this correlation. We describe methods for constructing generalized luminosity functions (GLFs) based on alpha, beta, redshift and schemes for unifying quasars and radio galaxies. Luminosity-dependent unified schemes (e.g. a receding-torus scheme) have been invoked to explain the low quasar to radio galaxy fraction at low alpha and the differences in emission-line luminosities of radio quasars and radio galaxies. With the constraints of the 3CRR, 6CE and 7CRS datasets and radio source counts, our GLF approach was used to determine whether a receding-torus-like scheme is required if there are two populations of radio sources: one at low alpha, consisting of 'starved AGN'; the other at high alpha consisting of 'Eddington-tuned AGN'. Because of the overlap between these two populations and the effects of the beta parameter, schemes with or without a receding torus can produce a low quasar fraction at low alpha and differences in [OIII] luminosity between radio galaxies and quasars. The receding torus may be a physical process important in one or more populations of radio sources, but this is not yet proved either by the quasar fraction or the emission-line properties of radio-selected samples.
Grimes Jennifer A.
Rawlings Steve
Willott Chris J.
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