Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-06
Astron.Astrophys. 425 (2004) 825-836
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages including 7 figures and 6 tables, v3: Accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:200400023
We investigate the nature of the point-like optical ``cores'' that have been found in the centres of the host galaxies of a majority of radio galaxies by the Hubble Space Telescope. We examine the evidence that these optical cores are relativistically beamed, and look for differences in the behaviour of the cores found in radio galaxies of the two Fanaroff-Riley types. We also attempt to relate this behaviour to the properties of the optical nuclei in their highly beamed counterparts (the BL Lac objects and radio-loud quasars) as hypothesized by the simple Unified Scheme. Simple model-fitting of the data suggests that the emission may be coming from a non-thermal relativistic jet. It is also suggestive that the contribution from an accretion disk is not significant for the FRI objects and for the narrow-line radio galaxies of FRII type, while it may be significant for the Broad-line objects, and consistent with the idea that the FRII optical cores seem to suffer from extinction due to an obscuring torus while the FRI optical cores do not. These results are in agreement with the Unified Scheme for radio-loud AGNs.
Kharb Preeti
Shastri Prajval
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