The deflection of jets by clouds

Steve Higgins, Tim O'Brien, James Dunlop

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    Abstract

    The role of collisions between extragalactic jets and dense clouds in determining the appearance of high-redshift radio galaxies is discussed and investigated through numerical hydrodynamic simulations in three dimensions. The code has the facility to track jet material separately from ambient material. This allows us to use simplifying assumptions to calculate synthetic radio images. The results indicate that the most powerful radio sources are likely to be observed during or shortly after an interaction, and that such interactions can explain both the radio structures and the spatial association between optical and radio light found in powerful radio galaxies. In some cases such a scenario may provide an alternative explanation of jet properties to mechanisms based on variations in the source or fluid-dynamical instabilities. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)311-315
    Number of pages4
    JournalAstrophysics and Space Science
    Volume233
    Issue number1-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 1995

    Keywords

    • Extragalactic Jets
    • Shock Waves

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