dc.contributor.author | Hardcastle, M. J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-06T17:08:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-06T17:08:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hardcastle , M J 2018 , ' A simulation-based analytic model of radio galaxies ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 475 , no. 2 , pp. 2768-2786 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3358 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | |
dc.identifier.other | ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00667v1 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4223-1117/work/53523139 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20140 | |
dc.description | © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.description.abstract | I derive and discuss a simple semi-analytical model of the evolution of powerful radio galaxies which is not based on assumptions of self-similar growth, but rather implements some insights about the dynamics and energetics of these systems derived from numerical simulations, and can be applied to arbitrary pressure/density profiles of the host environment. The model can qualitatively and quantitatively reproduce the source dynamics and synchrotron light curves derived from numerical modelling. Approximate corrections for radiative and adiabatic losses allow it to predict the evolution of radio spectral index and of inverse-Compton emission both for active and 'remnant' sources after the jet has turned off. Code to implement the model is publicly available. Using a standard model with a light relativistic (electron-positron) jet, subequipartition magnetic fields, and a range of realistic group/cluster environments, I simulate populations of sources and show that the model can reproduce the range of properties of powerful radio sources as well as observed trends in the relationship between jet power and radio luminosity, and predicts their dependence on redshift and environment. I show that the distribution of source lifetimes has a significant effect on both the source length distribution and the fraction of remnant sources expected in observations, and so can in principle be constrained by observations. The remnant fraction is expected to be low even at low redshift and low observing frequency due to the rapid luminosity evolution of remnants, and to tend rapidly to zero at high redshift due to inverse-Compton losses. | en |
dc.format.extent | 19 | |
dc.format.extent | 4408950 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
dc.subject | Galaxies: active | |
dc.subject | Galaxies: jets | |
dc.subject | Radio continuum: galaxies | |
dc.subject | Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
dc.subject | Space and Planetary Science | |
dc.title | A simulation-based analytic model of radio galaxies | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Astrophysics Research | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045187593&partnerID=8YFLogxK | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1093/mnras/stx3358 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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