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How Radio Sources Stay Young

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

J.A. Eilek
J.A. Eilek*
Affiliation:
New Mexico Tech Socorro, NM, USA

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In studying the dynamical evolution of radio galaxies, I find that the dynamical ages of the sources are older than the ages inferred from spectral breaks, typically by a factor ≃ 10. This suggests to me that the spectral ages are misleading.

Type
Radio Source Modelling and Emission Mechanisms
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 483 - 484
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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