1998/03/24 by M. J. Hardcastle · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01662.x
published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 298 (1998) 569 · 12 pages, 5 figures, uses epsf.sty and mn.sty. To appear in MNRAS
arxiv created 1998/03/24 · openalex publication_date 1998/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
I present 1.5- and 8.4-GHz observations with all configurations of the NRAO VLA of the wide-angle tail source 3C 130. The source has a pair of relatively symmetrical, well-collimated inner jets, one of which terminates in a compact hotspot. Archival ROSAT PSPC data confirm that the environment of 3C 130 is a luminous cluster with little sign of sub-structure in the X-ray-emitting plasma. I compare the source to other wide-angle tail objects and discuss the properties of the class as a whole. None of the currently popular models is entirely satisfactory in accounting for the disruption of the jets in 3C 130.