A new list of extra-galactic radio jets.pdf

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 2 1 2 4 7 7 v 1 2 0 D e c 2 0 0 2 Astronomy Astrophysics manuscript no. February 2, 2008 (DOI: will be inserted by hand later) A new list of extra-galactic radio jets F.K. Liu1,2 and Y.H. Zhang2 1 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Go?teborg University Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Go?teborg, Sweden email: fkliu@fy.chalmers.se 2 International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy Received 1 June, 2000; accepted 1 June, 2000 Abstract. A catalogue of extra-galactic jets is very useful both in observational and theoretical studies of active galaxies. With the use of new powerful radio instruments, the detailed structures of very compact or weak radio sources are investigated observationally and many new radio jets are detected. In this paper, we give a list of 661 radio sources with detected radio jets known to us prior to the end of December 2000. All references are collected for the observations of jets in radio, IR, optical, UV and X-ray wave-bands. Key words. galaxies: general – galaxies: active – galaxies: jets – BL Lac objects: general – quasars: general – galaxies: Seyfert 1. Introduction Theoretically every extra-galactic radio source contains at its center an accretion disc surrounding a super-massive black hole and ejecting two symmetric relativistic motion plasma jets in opposite directions along its rotation axes (Begelman et al. 1984). Whether a jet can be detected depends not only on the properties of the radio source itself but also on the instruments used. Radio jets have been detected in various types of radio sources: FR I and FR II radio galaxies, Seyfert galaxies, radio quasars, and BL Lac objects (Bridle Perley 1984; Liu Xie 1992 hereafter Paper I), though the detected rates of jets are different in different categories of radio sources with the same instruments under similar working conditions. The different detected rates of jets can be reconciled with the unif