Multicolor surface photometry of powerful radio galaxies. II - Morphology and stellar content

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Jun 1989

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 341, June 15, 1989, p. 658-678.

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Astronomical Photometry, Galactic Structure, Interacting Galaxies, Radio Galaxies, Brightness Distribution, Color, Isophotes, Magnitude, Star Formation

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Results on the morphology, photometric structure, and colors of 72 powerful radio galaxies (PRGs) are presented. It is found that galaxy interactions and mergers play an important role in the PRG phenomenon. Over 50 percent of the sample galaxies display optical morphological deviations from elliptical symmetry at high levels of surface brightness. About 20 percent of the galaxies have a second nucleus less than 10 kpc in projection from the main nucleus. The fraction of PRGs in a common envelope with neighboring galaxies is even larger. Surface brightness profiles for galaxies with weak or no emission lines are typically shallower in slope than normal radio-quiet elliptical galaxies, but similar to the brightest cluster galaxies. Surface brightness profiles for strong emission (SE) galaxies are more diverse in form. The SE PRGs have unusually blue average colors relative to giant elliptical galaxies. These colors are spatially extended and not merely due to light from a bright nucleus or extended emission-line gas.

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