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We present morphological and photometric properties of 79 low redshift (z<0.12) radio galaxies extracted from two radio flux limited samples of radio sources. All objects are imaged in the R band and for a subsample we have also obtained B band images. The sample includes sources of both FRI and FRII radio morphological type. Through the decomposition of the luminosity profiles and the analysis of the structural profiles (ellipticity, PA, c4) of the galaxies we are able to characterize in detail the optical properties of the radio galaxies. The average absolute magnitude is M_HOST(tot)=-24.0 with a clear trend for FRI sources to be 0.5 mag brighter than FRII galaxies. In about 40% of the objects observed we find an excess of light in the nucleus that is attributed to the presence of a nuclear point source whose luminosity is on average 1-2% of the total flux of the host galaxy. The luminosity of these nuclear point sources appears correlated with the core radio power of the galaxies. Radio galaxies follow the same mu_e - R_e relationship as normal elliptical galaxies. The distribution of ellipticity, the amount of twisting and shape of isophotes (boxy,disky) do not differ significa

Author

Govoni, F.; Falomo, R.; Fasano, G.; Scarpa, R.

Published

1999

Language

EN