Radio Properties of FIRST Radio Sources at 1 mJy

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2001-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110251v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 329 (2002) 377

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 6 figures, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05031.x

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the radio properties for the sample of faint radio sources introduced in Magliocchetti et al. (2000). The sample comprises mainly intrinsically low-power sources whose majority ($\simgt 70$ per cent) is made of FR I radio galaxies. These objects show some degree (at 1$\sigma$ confidence level) of luminosity evolution, which is also needed to correctly reproduce the total number and shape of the counts distribution at 1.4 GHz. Analysis of the de-evolved local radio luminosity function shows a good agreement between data and model predictions for this class of sources. Particular care has been devoted to the issue of 'lined' galaxies (i.e. objects presenting in their spectra a continuum typical of early-type galaxies plus emission lines of different nature), which appear as an intermediate class of sources between AGN-dominated and starburst galaxies. Different evolutionary behaviours are seen between the two sub-populations of lined and non-lined low-power radio galaxies, the first class indicating a tendency for the radio luminosity to decrease with look-back time, the second one showing positive evolution. We note that different evolutionary properties also seem to characterize BL Lacs selected in different bands, so that one might envisage an association between lined FR I and the sub-class of BL Lacs selected in the X-ray band.

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