Flat-spectrum symmetric objects with ~1 kpc sizes I. The candidates

Details Flat-spectrum symmetric objects with ~1 kpc sizes I. The candidates Flat-spectrum symmetric objects with ~1 kpc sizes I. The candidates

2006-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602511v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:1411-1428,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables (note that Table 2, in landscape format, has a separate file); accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10227.x

In order to understand the origin and evolution of radio galaxies, searches for the youngest such sources have been conducted. Compact-medium symmetric objects (CSO-MSOs) are thought to be the earliest stages of radio sources, with possible ages of <10^3 yrs for CSOs (<1 kpc in size) and 10^4-10^5 yrs for MSOs (1-15 kpc). From a literature selection in heterogeneous surveys, we have established a sample of 37 confirmed CSOs. In addition, we only found three confirmed flat-spectrum MSOs in the literature. The typical CSO resides on a z<0.5 galaxy, has a flat radio spectrum (a_thin<0.5; S_v proportional to v^-a), is <0.3 kpc in size, has an arm length ratio <2, and well-aligned (theta<20 deg) opposite lobes with a flux density ratio <10. In order to populate the 0.3-1 kpc size range (large CSOs) and also in order to find more flat-spectrum MSOs, we have built a sample of 157 radio sources with a_{1.40}^{4.85}<0.5 that were resolved with the VLA-A 8.4 GHz. As first results, we have 'rediscovered' nine of the known CSO/MSOs while identifying two new ~14 kpc MSOs and two candidate CSO/MSOs (which only lack redshifts for final classification). We were able to reject 61 of the remaining 144 objects from literature information alone. In the series of papers that starts with this one we plan to classify the remaining 83 CSO/MSO candidates (thanks to radio and optical observations) as well as characterize the physical properties of the (likely) many 0.3-15 kpc flat-spectrum CSO/MSOs to be found.

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