Giant Radio Sources

Abstract

We present multi-frequency VLA observations of two giant quasars, 0437-244 and 1025-229, from the Molonglo Complete Sample. These sources have well-defined FRII radio structure, possible one-sided jets, no significant depolarization between 1365 and 4935 MHz and low rotation measure ($\mid RM\mid <20rad/m^2$). The giant sources are defined to be those whose overall projected size is $\ge$ 1 Mpc. We have compiled a sample of about 50 known giant radio sources from the literature, and have compared some of their properties with a complete sample of 3CR radio sources of smaller sizes to investigate the evolution of giant sources, and test their consistency with the unified scheme for radio galaxies and quasars. We find an inverse correlation between the degree of core prominence and total radio luminosity, and show that the giant radio sources have similar core strengths to the smaller sources of similar total luminosity. Hence their large sizes are unlikely to be due to stronger nuclear activity. The degree of collinearity of the giant sources is also similar to the sample of smaller sources. The luminosity-size diagram shows that the giant sources are less luminous than our sample of smaller-sized 3CR sources, consistent with evolutionary scenarios where the giants have evolved from the smaller sources losing energy as they expand to these large dimensions. For the smaller sources, radiative losses due to synchrotron radiation is more significant while for the giant sources the equipartition magnetic fields are smaller and inverse Compton losses with the microwave background radiation is the dominant process. The radio properties of the giant radio galaxies and quasars are consistent with the unified scheme.

14 pages with 12 figures, MNRAS LaTex. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Minor changes in the text and couple of references added

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