Peculiar morphologies of extended extragalactic radio sources from numerical simulations

Abstract

Among the extragalactic radio sources there are objects with unusual morphologies. We investigated the possibility that the propagation of jets in a stratified distribution of density may produce such effects. A numerical setup was worked out and hydrodynamical 2D simulations were performed using the PLUTO code. We carried out a parametric study of a jet launched along the main axis of the mass distribution in order to obtain important sideways features.