Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-07-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to ApJ, LaTex, 26 total pages of text which includes captions & two tables, plus 13 EPS figures & 1 table
Scientific paper
Multi-frequency radio observations of the radio bridge of powerful classical double radio sources can be used to determine: the beam power of the jets emanating from the AGN; the total time the source will actively produce jets that power large-scale radio emission; the thermal pressure of the medium in the vicinity of the radio source; and the total mass, including dark matter, of the galaxy or cluster of galaxies traced by the ambient gas that surrounds the radio source. The theoretical constructs that allow a determination of each of these quantities using radio observations are presented and discussed. Empirical determinations of each of these quantities are obtained and analyzed. A sample of 14 radio galaxies and 8 radio loud quasars with redshifts between zero and two for which there is enough radio information to be able to determine the physical parameters listed above was studied in detail. (abridged)
Daly Ruth A.
Guerra Erick J.
Wan Lin
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