Diffuse environments of Bent-tailed radio galaxies

Project Description:

Radio galaxies, perhaps the most spectacular examples of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), come in a wide variety of shapes and forms. Their shapes depend not only on the ongoing accretion activity going on at the nucleus but also their interactions with their diffuse ambient environments, making radio galaxies very useful probes of their environs. A good example of this is a bent-tailed radio galaxy which may attain its form of swept-back lobes through interaction with the ambient Intergalactic Medium, typically the Intra-cluster medium. This project aims to utilise publicly available large multiwavelength datasets to determine the physical properties of the diffuse environments of bent-tailed radio galaxies.

Research Area:

Astronomy

Project Level:

Masters

This Project Is Offered At The Following Node(s):

(UCT)

Special Requirements:

Python, familiarity with basic extragalactic astronomy and with astronomical images and datasets.