Low Frequency Observations of Peculiar Radio Galaxies

Arpita Misra, Marek Jamrozy and Urszula Pajdosz-Śmierciak

Radio galaxies strikingly produce collimated jets from kiloparsec to megaparsec scale. These jets are powered by relativistic particles and magnetic field emanating from the core of active galactic nuclei. With new highly resolved deep sky surveys, radio galaxies with rare morphologies are increasingly discovered such as S-, X- and Z-shaped sources. Galaxies with such twisted jets underlie a complex and dynamic mechanism taking place at their cores. With many leading theories explaining the formation of these peculiar structures, there is a lack of sufficient evidence in support of either of them. We intend to probe the distorted jet/lobe morphology in order to understand the physical conditions at the central super-massive black hole of such host galaxies. Here we present new 608 MHz data of an S-shaped source from dedicated low frequency uGMRT observations.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 12, 66-68 (2022)

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