A Composite Model for GHz Peaked Spectra of Radio Sources
Jun Yang; Xiang Liu; Zhi-Qiang Shen
Журнал:
Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Дата:
2005-12-01
Аннотация:
GHz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) radio sources are powerful and compact sources with convex spectra. With increasing observational findings, it has been realized that either Synchrotron Self-Absorption (SSA) alone or Free-Free Absorption (FFA) alone is not enough to account for all the spectral features. We present a model consisting of an SSA region partially covered by FFA plasma, and derive a composite spectral formula. By applying the model to a sample of 19 GPS sources having strong absorption, it is found that the external FFA process makes the SSA peak frequency linearly shift to a higher (observed) peak frequency. The shift indicates that the FFA does play a role at the frequency close to the observed peak frequency.
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