2020ApJS..251....9B -
Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 251, 9-9 (2020/November-0)
FIRST winged radio galaxies With X and Z symmetry.
BERA S., PAL S., SASMAL T.K. and MONDAL S.
Abstract (from CDS):
X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs) are a subclass of radio sources that exhibit a pair of secondary low surface brightness radio lobes oriented at an angle to the primary high surface brightness lobes. Sometimes, the secondary low brightened lobes emerge from the edges of the primary high brightened lobes and form a Z-symmetric morphology. We present a systematical search result for XRGs and Z-shaped radio galaxies (ZRGs) from the VLA Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (VLA FIRST) Survey at 1.4 GHz. Our search yields a total of 296 number of radio sources, out of which 161 are XRGs and 135 are ZRGs. We have also made optical identification of these sources from the different available literature. J1124 + 4325 and J1319 + 0502 are the farthest known XRG and ZRG, respectively. We have estimated spectral index and radio luminosity of these radio sources and made a comparative study with previously detected XRGs and ZRGs. The average value of luminosities for XRGs is higher than that of ZRGs. With the help of a large sample size of the newly discovered XRGs and ZRGs, various statistical properties of these sources are studied. Out of 161 XRGs presented in the current paper, 70% (113) are FR II radio galaxies and 13% (20) are FR I radio galaxies. For 28 XRGs, the morphology is complex and could not be classified. For XRGs, the statistical studies are done on the angle between the major axis and minor axis and the relative size of the major and minor axes. For the ZRGs a statistical study is done on the angular size.
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Journal keyword(s):
Active galactic nuclei - Catalogs - Interferometric correlation - Quasars - Radio continuum emission - Surveys
Status at CDS
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Large table(s) will be appraised for possible ingestion in VizieR. // Tables of objects mostly ingested in SIMBAD; some problems could not be solved.
Simbad objects:
174
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