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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 319, Issue 2, Pages 562-572Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03883.x
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galaxies : active; galaxies : clusters : general; X-rays : galaxies
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Using ROSAT observations, we estimate gas pressures in the X-ray-emitting medium surrounding 63 FRII radio galaxies and quasars. We compare these pressures with the internal pressures of the radio-emitting plasma estimated by assuming minimum energy or equipartition. In the majority of cases (including 12/13 sources with modelled, spatially resolved X-ray emission) radio sources appear to be underpressured with respect to the external medium, suggesting that simple minimum-energy arguments underestimate the internal energy density of the sources. We discuss possible departures from the minimum-energy condition and the consequences of our result for models of the dynamics of radio galaxies, in particular self-similar models.
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