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Radio Source Evolution and Unified Schemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

C. A. Jackson
C. A. Jackson*
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; [email protected]
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Abstract

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Powerful extragalactic radio sources are characterised by kpc-scale synchrotron emission associated with highly-collimated outflows of relativistic plasma. It is hypothesised that this outflowing plasma is powered by accretion processes concomitant with a central massive black hole. The radio morphologies of these sources comprise jets, lobes and for the most powerful sources, hotspots. At first sight, powerful extragalactic radio sources are a mixed group of objects, with the result that only some gross property delineates them further (e.g. steep-spectrum or flat-spectrum). However, there is accumulating observational evidence which suggests that it is the orientation of the radio axis to our line of sight that dictates their observed characteristics. This orientation dependence has been incorporated into ‘unified schemes’, which physically link apparently disparate radio source types via the random orientation of a ‘parent’ population on the plane of the sky. This paper summarises the ‘dual-population unified scheme’ paradigm investigated by Wall & Jackson (1997) and Jackson & Wall (1999) and discusses some of its implications with respect to radio source cosmology.

Keywords

galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: jetsquasars: generalradio continuum: galaxies
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 124 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1999

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