Spectral energy distributions of FR I nuclei and the FR I/BL Lac unifying model |
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| Authors: | A Capetti E Trussoni A Celotti L Feretti M Chiaberge |
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| Institution: | Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio 20, I-10025 Pino Torinese, Italy;SISSA, Via Beirut 2–4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy;Istituto di Radioastronomia del CNR, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy |
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| Abstract: | We consider archival ROSAT and Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) observations of five FR I radio galaxies and isolate their nuclear emission from that of the host galaxy. This enables us to determine the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of their nuclei spanning the region from the radio to the X-ray band. They cannot be described as single power laws, but require the presence of an emission peak located between the infrared (IR) and soft X-ray band. We found consistency between the SED peak position and the values of the broad-band spectral indices of radio galaxies compared with those of BL Lacs, once the effects of beaming are properly taken into account. FR I SEDs are thus qualitatively similar to those of BL Lacs, supporting the identification of FR I sources as their misoriented counterparts. No dependence of the shape of the SED on the FR I orientation is found. |
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| Keywords: | galaxies: active BL Lacertae objects: general galaxies: jets galaxies: nuclei galaxies: photometry |
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