2019A&A...626A...8M -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 626A8-8 (2019/6-1)
WATCAT: a tale of wide-angle tailed radio galaxies.
MISSAGLIA V., MASSARO F., CAPETTI A., PAOLILLO M., KRAFT R.P., BALDI R.D. and PAGGI A.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present a catalog of 47 wide-angle tailed radio galaxies (WATs), the WATCAT, mainly built including a radio morphological classification; WATs were selected by combining observations from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory/Very Large Array Sky Survey (NVSS), the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST), and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We included in the catalog only radio sources showing two-sided jets with two clear "warmspots" (i.e., jet knots as bright as 20% of the nucleus) lying on the opposite side of the radio core, and having classical extended emission resembling a plume beyond them. The catalog is limited to redshifts z≤0.15, and lists only sources with radio emission extended beyond 30 kpc from the host galaxy. We found that host galaxies of WATCAT sources are all luminous (-20.5≥Mr≥-23.7), red early-type galaxies with black hole masses in the range 108≤MBH≤ 109M☉. The spectroscopic classification indicates that they are all low-excitation galaxies (LEGs). Comparing WAT multifrequency properties with those of FR I and FR II radio galaxies at the same redshifts, we conclude that WATs show multifrequency properties remarkably similar to FR I radio galaxies, having radio power of typical FR IIs.
Abstract Copyright:
© ESO 2019
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: active - galaxies: jets - radio continuum: galaxies
VizieR on-line data:
<Available at CDS (J/A+A/626/A8): watcat.dat>
Simbad objects:
47
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