our paper is out! Learn how to bend it like FRs!

“Bent it like FRs: extended radio AGN in the COSMOS field and their large-scale environment”, Vardoulaki et al. 2021

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00034

all about bent angle, large-scale environment, and simulations

We investigate the degree of distortion of extended radio AGN, by measuring the bent angle, and relating it to the large-scale environment from scales of kpc to several Mpc. And because simulations are cool, we compare to magnetohydrodynamic ENZO-MHD simulation.

We conclude that the dominant mechanism affecting the radio structures of FRs could be the evolution of the ambient medium, where higher densities and longer depths at lower redshifts allow for more space for jet interactions

with Franco Vazza, Eric F. Jiménez-Andrade, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Alexis Finoguenov, and Denis Wittor