The radio and optical axes of radio elliptical galaxies
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- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Vol. 229 (1) , 15-29
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/229.1.15
Abstract
New VLA and CCD data are incorporated with previous observations to investigate the alignment of radio and optical axes of radio-emitting early-type galaxies. A comparison of observations with simulations modelling the random projection effects of different geometries on the sky shows that there is no strong physical relation of radio axis with a particular stellar axis. This result is true for both triaxial and axially-symmetric galaxies.Keywords
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