The Velocity of Separation of the Components of Extragalactic Radio Sources

Open Access

1 May 1973

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Vol. 162 (1) , 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/162.1.1

Abstract

Observations of a statistically complete sample of radio sources are used to derive limits to the velocity of separation of the components of typical double radio sources. For the most probable rate of luminosity evolution, the components of a typical source are unlikely to be moving away from the parent galaxy with a velocity exceeding 0.08 c.

Keywords

SOURCES OBSERVATIONS
DERIVE LIMITS
TYPICAL DOUBLE
DOUBLE RADIO
LUMINOSITY EVOLUTION
TYPICAL SOURCE
PROBABLE RATE
STATISTICALLY COMPLETE