Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-05-28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
26 pages, LaTeX (l-aa30 style, including 5 Tables and 30 figures), Accepted for publication in A&A Main Journal
Scientific paper
We present the results of a detailed analysis of the newly discovered 15 arcmin large FRII-type radio galaxy WNB 0313+683. It has a redshift of 0.0901 +/- 0.0002 and a projected linear size of 2.0 Mpc. Using multi-frequency radio data from the WENSS and NVSS surveys, the VLA, the WSRT and the 100m Effelsberg telescope, we have derived the age of the source (1.4 +/- 0.1 x 10^8 yrs) and the particle densities around the two radio lobes (>1.6 x 10^(-6) per cubic cm for the southern lobe and >5.8 x 10^(-7) per cubic cm for the northern). From optical spectroscopy we find that the H$\alpha$ emission line has a broad component, and that the extinction is large (with colour index E(B-V) = 0.98 +/- 0.10 mag), but is probably mostly galactic in origin (b= +9.8 degrees). Further, the radio core has an inverted spectrum with a spectral index of +0.42 +/- 0.03, suggesting a very compact structure. At 10.5 GHz, it contributes 25% of the total flux density of the source, which is extremely high for radio galaxies. WNB 0313+683 has a very large optical emission line flux with respect to its estimated jet power, when compared with the correlation between these two properties found by Rawlings & Saunders (1991). We argue that this, together with the relatively high radio power and the inverted radio spectrum of the radio core, is suggestive of a new phase of radio activity in this source.
de Bruyn Ger A.
der Laan van H.
Giovannini Gabriele
Lara Liana
Mack Karl-Heinz
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