| Abstract from DBPedia | A radio galaxy is a galaxy with giant regions of radio emission extending well beyond its visible structure. These energetic radio lobes are powered by jets from its active galactic nucleus. They have luminosities up to 1039 W at radio wavelengths between 10 MHz and 100 GHz. The radio emission is due to the synchrotron process. The observed structure in radio emission is determined by the interaction between twin jets and the external medium, modified by the effects of relativistic beaming. The host galaxies are almost exclusively large elliptical galaxies. Radio-loud active galaxies can be detected at large distances, making them valuable tools for observational cosmology. Recently, much work has been done on the effects of these objects on the intergalactic medium, particularly in galaxy groups and clusters. Alcyoneus is a low-excitation radio galaxy, identified as having the largest radio lobes found, with lobed structures spanning 5 megaparsecs (16×106 ly). For comparison, another similarly sized giant radio galaxy is 3C 236, with lobes 15 million light-years across. A giant radio galaxy is a special class of objects characterized by the presence of radio lobes generated by relativistic jets powered by the central galaxy's supermassive black hole. Giant radio galaxies are different from ordinary radio galaxies in that they can extend to much larger scales, reaching upwards to several megaparsecs across, far larger than the diameters of their host galaxies.電波銀河(radio galaxy)は、最大光度1039Wに及ぶ非常に明るい電波（10 MHzから100 GHz）を放出する活動銀河である。類似のものに電波を出すクエーサーやブレーザーがある。電波の放出はシンクロトロンの過程による。観測によると、2つの宇宙ジェットとその外部の媒体の相互作用がの効果によって変化したものである。このような銀河のほとんどは楕円銀河であり、電波銀河はそれ自体の性質だけではなく、かなり離れていても検出できるため、のツールとして利用できることからも関心を持たれている。近年、銀河間空間、特に銀河団の電波銀河の効果に関する多くの研究が行われている。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Radio_galaxy) |
