Free Access

Table 7

Calculated values of the total energy in the hotspots of Cygnus A.

Total energy [1050 J]
γ 5 GHz 8 GHz 15 GHz 43 GHz

LHS1
100 2.53 2.34 2.62 2.19
101 1.28 1.18 1.32 1.11
102 0.65 0.60 0.67 0.56
103 0.33 0.30 0.34 0.28
104 0.17 0.15 0.17 0.14

LHS2
100 0.27 0.26 0.30 0.23
101 0.16 0.15 0.17 0.13
102 0.09 0.09 0.10 0.08
103 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.04
104 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03

Notes. We used Eq. (5) assuming the minimum energy magnetic field values Bmin as given in Table 5, for background subtracted fluxes (cflux) and α as calculated from fitting our photometry. In all cases, we have performed the calculation for five different γ values.

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.