The Multiwavelength Environment of Second Bologna Catalog Sources

Paggi, A.; Massaro, F.; Penã-Herazo, H.; Missaglia, V.; Jimenez-Gallardo, A.; Ricci, F.; Ettori, S.; Giovannini, G.; Govoni, F.; Baldi, R. D.; Mingo, B.; Murgia, M.; Liuzzo, E. and Galati, F. (2023). The Multiwavelength Environment of Second Bologna Catalog Sources. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 268(31)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ace436

Abstract

We present the first results of the Chandra Cool Targets (CCT) survey of the Second Bologna Catalog (B2CAT) of powerful radio sources, aimed at investigating the extended X-ray emission surrounding these sources. For the first 33 sources observed in the B2CAT CCT survey, we performed both imaging and spectral X-ray analysis, producing multiband Chandra images, and compared these images with radio observations. To evaluate the presence of extended emission in the X-rays, we extracted surface flux profiles comparing them with simulated ACIS point-spread functions. We detected X-ray nuclear emission for 28 sources. In addition, we detected eight regions of increased X-ray flux originating from radio hot spots or jet knots, and a region of decreased flux, possibly associated with an X-ray cavity. We performed X-ray spectral analysis for 15 nuclei and found intrinsic absorption significantly larger than the Galactic values in four of them. We detected significant extended X-ray emission in five sources, and fitted their spectra with thermal models with gas temperatures ∼2 keV. In the case of B2.1 0742+31, the surrounding hot gas is compatible with the intracluster medium of low-luminosity clusters of galaxies, while the X-ray diffuse emission surrounding the highly disturbed wide-angle-tailed radio galaxy B2.3 2254+35 features a luminosity similar to those of relatively bright galaxy groups, although its temperature is similar to those of low-luminosity galaxy clusters. These results highlight the power of low-frequency radio selection, combined with short Chandra snapshot observations, for investigating the properties of X-ray emission from radio sources.

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