Radio Jets As A Probe Of The Cooling Flow Environment
D. M. Sumi, M. L. Norman, L. L. Smarr, in Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies, 1987, ed. A. C. Fabian (D. Reidel: Dordrecht) (1987).
Abstract
We discuss the use of radio Jets as a probe of the structure of cooling flows on length scales accessible to the currently available X-ray data The radio structure of one such cooling flow galaxy, IC 1101, suggests a shock disruption of a supersonic beam This type of radio structure is also found associated With other cooling flow galaxies The shock disruption is discussed in terms of an interaction of the beam with the cooling flow environment. The current sophistication of these disruption mechanisms and of the radio observations does not compel one to favor one mechanism over another. Each mechanism, however, may be useful in studying the central regions of cooling flows.