Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-01-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 341 (2003) 993
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 14 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06485.x
We present a detailed analysis of a sample of radio-detected quasars, obtained by matching together objects from the FIRST and 2dF Quasar Redshift Surveys. The dataset consists of 113 sources, spanning a redshift range 0.3 < z < 2.2, with optical magnitudes 18.25 < b_J < 20.85 and radio fluxes S_{1.4 GHz} < 1 mJy. These objects exhibit properties such as redshift and colour distribution in full agreement with those derived for the whole quasar population, suggestive of an independence of the mechanism(s) controlling the birth and life-time of quasars of their level of radio emission. The long debated question of radio-loud (RL)/radio-quiet (RQ) dichotomy is then investigated for the combined FIRST-2dF and FIRST-LBQS sample, since they present similar selection criteria. We find the fraction of radio detections to increase with magnitude from < 3% at the faintest levels up to 20% for the brightest sources. The classical RL/RQ dichotomy, in which the distribution of radio-to-optical ratios and/or radio luminosities shows a lack of sources, is ruled out by our analysis. We also find no tight relationship between optical and radio luminosities for sources in the considered sample, result that tends to exclude the mass of the quasar black hole as the physical quantity associated to the level of radio emission.
Celotti Annalisa
Cirasuolo Michele
Danese Lugi
Magliocchetti Manuela
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