Synchrotron Spectra and Ages of Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Sources

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1999-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904141v2

New Astron.Rev. 46 (2002) 307-311

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Astron. & Astrophys.; typos corrected; gzipped postscript version a

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1387-6473(01)00200-7

The high-frequency integrated spectra of Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) sources show breaks with a moderate spectral steepening well fitted by continuous injection synchrotron spectra. In lobe-dominated CSS sources the radiative ages deduced by the synchrotron theory are in the range of up to 0.1 Myears, if equipartition magnetic fields are assumed. These radiative ages are well correlated with the source size indicating that the CSS sources are young. In order to maintain the frustration scenario, in which the sources' lifetimes are about 10 Myears, their equipartition magnetic field would be systematically decreased by a factor of more than 20. To complete the sample used in this work, we conducted observations at 230 GHz with the IRAM 30-m telescope of those sources which did not have such high-frequency observations up to now.

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