Collimation of extragalactic radio jets |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Henan Normal University, Henan 453007, PR China;2. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China;1. Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, India;2. Center of Excellence in Particle Physics at Tera Scale, The University of Adelaide, 5005 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;3. INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy;1. CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland;2. European Spallation Source (ESS ERIC), P.O. Box 176, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden;3. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;4. RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany;5. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 16636 Prague 6, Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | We study the collimation of radio jets in the high-luminosity Fanaroff–Riley class II sources by examining the dependence of the sizes of hotspots and knots in the radio jets on the overall size of the objects for a sample of compact steep-spectrum or CSS and larger-sized objects. The objects span a wide range in overall size from about 50 pc to 1 Mpc. The mean size of the hotspots increases with the source size during the CSS phase, which is typically taken to be about 20 kpc, and the relationship flattens for the larger sources. The hotspot size ratio – separation ratio diagram suggests that the very asymmetric CSS objects evolve in an asymmetric environment. We also suggest that some sources, especially of lower luminosity, exhibit an asymmetry in the collimation of the oppositely-directed radio jets. |
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