Optical spectroscopy of 3CR sample of radio sources at z<0.3

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2008-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1481v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Conference "The Central Kiloparsec: Active Galactic Nuclei and Their H

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We are carrying out a program of optical spectroscopy of the complete subsample of the 3CR catalog of radio sources at redshift z < 0.3. The sample consists of 113 3CR sources, comprising FR I, FR II radio galaxies and Quasars. Complete datasets in other bands are already or will be soon available for the whole sample but the optical spectra are sparse and inhomogeneous in quality. The observations are carried out at the 3.58m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG, La Palma). More than 100 sources have been already observed. We present here the preliminary results on the analysis of the high and low resolution spectra. We found that sources can be spectroscopically characterized as: High Excitation Galaxies (HEG), Low Excitation Galaxies (LEG) and "Relic" AGNs. This classification is supported by the optical - radio correlations in which objects spectroscopically different follow different correlations. We conclude that AGNs with the same radio power can be fueled with different accretion properties. "Relic" radio-galaxies are characterized by extreme low excitation spectra that we interpret as nuclei whose activity has recently turned-off. The full spectral catalog will be made available to the scientific community.

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