Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

The Discovery of a Low-Luminosity SPIRAL DRAGN, Mulcahy+

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    Abstract:

    Standard galaxy formation models predict that large-scale double-lobed radio sources, known as DRAGNs, will always be hosted by elliptical galaxies. In spite of this, in recent years a small number of spiral galaxies have also been found to host such sources. These so-called spiral DRAGNs are still extremely rare, with only ∼5 cases being widely accepted. Here we report on the serendipitous discovery of a new spiral DRAGN in data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 322 MHz. The host galaxy, MCG+07-47-10, is a face-on late-type Sbc galaxy with distinctive spiral arms and prominent bulge suggesting a high black hole mass. Using WISE infra-red and GALEX UV data we show that this galaxy has a star formation rate of 0.16-0.75 M⊙yr−1, and that the radio luminosity is dominated by star-formation. We demonstrate that this spiral DRAGN has similar environmental properties to others of this class, but has a comparatively low radio luminosity of L1.4GHz = 1.12×1022 W Hz−1, two orders of magnitude smaller than other known spiral DRAGNs. We suggest that this may indicate the existence of a previously unknown low-luminosity population of spiral DRAGNS.

    Authors include M. Mao. Posted in arXiv, arXiv:1609.04820. zutopian also wrote a post about this, in the Hourglass sources associated with spiral galaxies thread.

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  • sisifolibre by sisifolibre

    "Studying spiral DRAGNs, as well as establishing their numbers more exactly, is vital in order to reconcile their role in standard galaxy formation theories."

    Thanks for post.

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