2023MNRAS.520L..33P -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 520, L33-L37 (2023/March-3)
TXS 1433+205: The most distant gamma-ray emitting FR II radio galaxy.
PALIYA V.S., SAIKIA D.J. and STALIN C.S.
Abstract (from CDS):
The orientation of the jet axis to the line of sight of the observer plays a major role in explaining the phenomena observed from blazars and radio galaxies. In the γ-ray band, only a handful of radio galaxies have been identified, all being located in the nearby Universe (z < 0.5). Here, we report the identification of 4FGL J1435.5+2021, associated with TXS 1433+205, as a Fanaroff-Riley type II (FR II) radio galaxy at a considerably higher redshift of z = 0.748, thereby making it the most distant γ-ray detected radio galaxy known as of now. The Very Large Array Sky Survey data at 3 GHz resolves the source morphology into a bright core, a jet and two hotspots, with a total end-to-end projected length between lobe extremities of ∼170 kpc. The optical and radio properties of this enigmatic object suggest it to be a high-excitation FR II radio galaxy. The multiwavelength behaviour of TXS 1433+205 is found to be similar to other γ-ray detected FR II sources but is at the high-luminosity end. We suggest that the ongoing and upcoming high-resolution radio surveys will lead to the identification of many more high-redshift radio galaxies in the γ-ray sky, thus allowing comprehensive studies of misaligned relativistic jets.
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© 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
BL Lacertae objects: general - galaxies: jets - gamma-rays: galaxies
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