{
  "id": "0912.3001",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-12-15T21:00:37.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-12-15T21:00:37.000Z",
  "title": "The Chandra View of Nearby X-shaped Radio Galaxies",
  "authors": [
    "Edmund Hodges-Kluck",
    "Christopher S. Reynolds",
    "Chi C. Cheung",
    "M. Coleman Miller"
  ],
  "comment": "65 pages in pre-print form incl. 9 figures (multi-page), 7 tables, and notes. Accepted by ApJ",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "astro-ph.CO"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present new and archival Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of X-shaped radio galaxies within z < 0.1 alongside a comparison sample of normal double-lobed FR I and II radio galaxies. By fitting elliptical distributions to the observed diffuse hot X-ray emitting atmospheres, we find that the ellipticity and the position angle of the hot gas follows that of the stellar light distribution for radio galaxy hosts in general. Moreover, compared to the control sample, we find a strong tendency for X-shaped morphology to be associated with wings directed along the minor axis of the hot gas distribution. Taken at face value, this result favors the hydrodynamic backflow models for the formation of X-shaped radio galaxies which naturally explain the geometry; the merger-induced rapid reorientation models make no obvious prediction about orientation.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-12-15T21:00:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "radio galaxy",
      "nearby x-shaped radio galaxies",
      "chandra view",
      "archival chandra x-ray observatory observations",
      "hot gas"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1205",
      "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 710,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": 1205
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 65,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 840219,
      "adsabs": "2010ApJ...710.1205H"
    }
  }
}