Jets, plumes and hotspots in the wide-angle tail source 3C 130

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Author
Hardcastle, M.J.
Abstract
I present 1.5- and 8.4-GHz observations with all configurations of the NRAO VLA of the wide-angle tail source 3C130. The source has a pair of relatively symmetrical, well- collimated inner jets, one of which terminates in a compact hot spot. Archival ROSAT PSPC data confirm that 3C130’s environment 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 date
1998
Published in
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published version
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01662.x
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http://hdl.handle.net/2299/1198
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School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
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