A survey of Low Luminosity Compact sources
Abstract
Based on the FIRST and SDSS catalogues a flux density limited sample of weak Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) sources with radio luminosity below 10^26 [W/Hz] at 1.4 GHz has been constructed. Our previous multifrequency observations of CSS sources have shown that low luminosity small-scale objects can be strong candidates for compact faders. This finding supports the idea that some small-size radio sources are short-lived phenomena because of a lack of significant fuelling. They never 'grow up' to become FRI or FRII objects. This new sample marks the start of a systematical study of the radio properties and morphologies of the population of low luminosity compact (LLC) objects. An investigation of this new sample should also lead to a better understanding of compact faders. In this paper, the results of the first stage of the new project - the L-band MERLIN observations of 44 low luminosity CSS sources are presented.
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@article{arxiv.0903.3838,
title = {A survey of Low Luminosity Compact sources},
author = {Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska and Peter Thomasson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3838},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, Proceedings of "The 4th CSS/GPS Workshop" held at Riccione, Italy, 26-29 May 2008