Issue |
A&A
Volume 396, Number 3, December IV 2002
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Page(s) | 857 - 866 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021462 | |
Published online | 05 December 2002 |
HST images of B2 radio galaxies: A link between circum-nuclear dust and radio properties?*
1
Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani, 1, 40127 Italy
2
Istituto di Radioastronomia, via Gobetti 101, 40129, Bologna, Italy
3
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio 25, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy
4
Istituto di Fisica, University of Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy
5
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
Corresponding author: H. R. de Ruiter, deruiter@bo.astro.it
Received:
5
April
2002
Accepted:
1
October
2002
Almost 60% of the B2 low luminosity radio galaxies have been observed with the Hubble Space
Telescope. We present an analysis of the dust features, which are often present in the form of
circum-nuclear disks or lanes, and show that there are correlations between radio source and dust
properties.
It is found that nearby radio sources in which a jet has been detected tend to have dust more
often than sources without jets; the dust is often in the form of disks or lanes. Moreover the
radio jets are close to perpendicular to the disk or lane in the weaker radio sources
(with WHz-1). In stronger sources the orientation effect appears to be
weak or even
absent. Also the dust masses found in the weaker radio sources are smaller than in the stronger
ones (
against 5 respectively). More generally it appears that
there is a correlation between dust mass and total radio power (for those sources in which
dust has been detected); we show that this correlation is not induced by redshift.
Key words: galaxies: active / galaxies: elliptical and lenticulars / galaxies: nuclei
© ESO, 2002
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