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3C236 - The Giant Radio Galaxy with a Compact Steep Spectrum Nucleus and a Compact Two-Sided Jet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

R. T. Schilizzi
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, NL
E. D. Skillman
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, NL
G. K. Miley
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
P. D. Barthel
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
J. M. Benson
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA, USA
T.W.B. Muxlow
Affiliation:
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, UK

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3C236 is the largest radio source known. It has a 39 arcmin double structure (3.0 Mpc, Ho=75 kms−1 Mpc−1) in which the SE lobe is narrow and edge-brightened and the NW lobe more diffuse and centre-brightened (Barthel et al., 1985). About half the flux density comes from a steep spectrum (α = −0.7) radio core of overall size 1.3 arcsec (2.2 kpc) located in the centre of a 17m elliptical galaxy with redshift 0.0988.

Type
Extragalactic
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

References

Barthel, P.D. et al. (1985) A. and A. 148, 243.Google Scholar