Jets, plumes and hotspots in the wide-angle tail source 3C 130
Abstract
I present 1.5- and 8.4-GHz observations with all configurations of the NRAO VLA of the wide-angle tail source 3C 130. The source has a pair of relatively symmetrical, well-collimated inner jets, one of which terminates in a compact hotspot. Archival ROSAT PSPC data confirm that the environment of 3C 130 is a luminous cluster with little sign of sub-structure in the X-ray-emitting plasma. I compare the source to other wide-angle tail objects and discuss the properties of the class as a whole. None of the currently popular models is entirely satisfactory in accounting for the disruption of the jets in 3C130.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- August 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01662.x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9803280
- Bibcode:
- 1998MNRAS.298..569H
- Keywords:
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- GALAXIES: ACTIVE;
- GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: 3C 130;
- GALAXIES: JETS;
- RADIO CONTINUUM: GALAXIES;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 5 figures, uses epsf.sty and mn.sty. To appear in MNRAS