Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-05
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1391-1398,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 9 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09926.x
We report the discovery of a double-double radio galaxy (DDRG), J0041+3224, with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and subsequent high-frequency observations with the Very Large Array (VLA). The inner and outer doubles are aligned within about 4 deg and are reasonably collinear with the parent optical galaxy. The outer double has a steeper radio spectrum compared with the inner one. Using an estimated redshift of 0.45, the projected linear sizes of the outer and inner doubles are 969 and 171 kpc respectively. The time scale of interruption of jet activity has been estimated to be about 20 Myr, similar to other known DDRGs. We have compiled a sample of known DDRGs, and have re-examined the inverse correlation between the ratio of the luminosities of the outer to the inner double and the size of the inner double, l_{in}. Unlike the other DDRGs with l_{in} larger than about 50 kpc, the inner double of J0041+3224 is marginally more luminous than the outer one. The two DDRGs with l_{in} less than about a few kpc have a more luminous inner double than the outer one, possibly due to a higher efficiency of conversion of beam energy as the jets propagate through the dense interstellar medium. We have examined the symmetry parameters and find that the inner doubles appear to be more asymmetric in both its armlength and flux density ratios compared with the outer doubles, although they appear marginally more collinear with the core than the outer double. We discuss briefly possible implications of these trends.
Konar Chiranjib
Kulkarni Vasant K.
Saikia D. J.
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