Physical parameters in the hot spots and jets of Compact Symmetric Objects

Details Physical parameters in the hot spots and jets of Compact Symmetric Objects Physical parameters in the hot spots and jets of Compact Symmetric Objects

2001-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111579v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/338882

We present a model to determine the physical parameters of jets and hot spots of a sample of CSOs under very basic assumptions like synchrotron emission and minimum energy conditions. Based on this model we propose a simple evolutionary scenario for these sources assuming that they evolve in ram pressure equilibrium with the external medium and constant jet power. The parameters of our model are constrained from fits of observational data (radio luminosity, hot spot radius and hot spot advance speed) versus projected linear size. From these plots we conclude that CSOs evolve self-similarly and that their radio luminosity increases with linear size along the first kiloparsec. Assuming that the jets feeding CSOs are relativistic from both kinematical and thermodynamical points of view, we use the values of the pressure and particle number density within the hot spots to estimate the fluxes of momentum (thrust), energy, and particles of these relativistic jets. The mean jet power obtained in this way is within an order of magnitude that inferred for FRII sources, which is consistent with CSOs being the possible precursors of large doubles. The inferred flux of particles corresponds to, for a barionic jet, about a 10% of the mass accreted by a black hole of $10^8 {\rm M_{\odot}}$ at the Eddington limit, pointing towards a very efficient conversion of accretion flow into ejection, or to a leptonic composition of jets.

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