Radio and spectroscopic properties of miniature radio galaxies: Revealing the bulk of the radio-loud AGN population

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We explore radio and spectroscopic properties of a sample of 14 miniature radio galaxies, i.e. early-type core galaxies hosting radioloud AGN of extremely low radio power, 10 27-29 erg s -1 Hz -1 at 1.4 GHz. Miniature radio galaxies smoothly extend the relationships found for the more powerful FR I radio galaxies between emission line, optical and radio nuclear luminosities to lower levels. However, they have a deficit of a factor of ∼100 in extended radio emission with respect to that of the classical example of 3CR/FR I. This is not due to their low luminosity, since we found radio galaxies of higher radio core power, similar to those of 3CR/FR I, showing the same behavior, i.e. lacking significant extended radio emission. Such sources form the bulk of the population of radio-loud AGN in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. At a given level of nuclear emission, one can find radio sources with an extremely wide range, a factor of ≳100, of radio power. We argue that the prevalence of sources with luminous extended radio structures in flux limited samples is due to a selection bias, since the inclusion of such objects is highly favored. The most studied catalogues of radio galaxies are thus composed by the minority of radio-loud AGN that meet the physical conditions required to form extended radio sources, while the bulk of the population is virtually unexplored. © 2009 ESO.

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Baldi, R. D., & Capetti, A. (2009). Radio and spectroscopic properties of miniature radio galaxies: Revealing the bulk of the radio-loud AGN population. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508(2), 603–614. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913021

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