ERRATUM: “RADIATIVE EFFICIENCY AND CONTENT OF EXTRAGALACTIC RADIO SOURCES: TOWARD A UNIVERSAL SCALING RELATION BETWEEN JET POWER AND RADIO POWER” (2008, ApJ, 686, 859)
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Abstract
We present an analysis of the energetics and particle content of the lobes of 24 radio galaxies at the cores of cooling clusters.The radio lobes in these systems have created visible cavities in the surrounding hot, X-ray-emitting gas, which allow direct measurement of the mechanical jet power of radio sources over six decades of radio luminosity, independently of the radio properties themselves.Using these measurements, we examine the ratio between radio power and total jet power (the radiative efficiency).We find that jet (cavity) power increases with radio synchrotron power approximately as P jet ∼ L β radio , where 0.35 ≤ β ≤ 0.70 depending on the bandpass of measurement and state of the source.However, the scatter about these relations caused by variations in radiative efficiency spans more than four orders of magnitude.A number of factors contribute to this scatter including aging, entrainment, variations in magnetic field strengths, and the partitioning of energy between electrons and non-radiating heavy particles.After accounting for variations in synchrotron break frequency (age), the scatter is reduced by ≈ 50% , yielding the most accurate scaling relation available between the lobe bolometric radio power and the jet (cavity) power.We place limits on the magnetic field strengths and particle content of the radio lobes using a variety of X-ray constraints.We find that the lobe magnetic field strengths vary between a few to several tens of microgauss depending on the age and dynamical state of the lobes.If the cavities are maintained in pressure balance with their surroundings and are supported by internal fields and particles in equipartition, the ratio of energy in electrons to heavy particles (k) must vary widely from approximately unity to 4000, consistent with heavy (hadronic) jets.The synchrotron ages are substantially smaller than the independently measured X-ray buoyancy ages.Low frequency radio observations provide the best tracer of AGN power integrated over the past several hundred million years, and may provide a useful proxy for X-ray cavities in systems where cavities cannot be directly detected but are likely to exist (e.g., in cooling-flow clusters).
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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