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Mapping Jet-gas Coupling and Energetic Ionized Outflows in High-redshift Radio Galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec

  • Authors: Namrata Roy, Timothy Heckman, Alaina Henry, Wuji Wang, Pranav Kukreti

Namrata Roy et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1002 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 20.

Violin plots showing the distribution of W80 line widths across all spaxels in the combined sample of radio-quiet quasars observed with JWST/NIRSpec IFU ( G. Cresci et al. 2023; M. A. Marshall et al. 2023; A. Vayner et al. 2024; S. Veilleux et al. 2023, top row). This is compared to the spaxel-level W80 distributions in each of the six HzRGs presented in this work (the second to the seventh row). W80 is a nonparametric measure of the line width and serves as a proxy for the strength of AGN-driven outflows and the degree of kinematic disturbance. The radio-quiet quasars exhibit typical W80 values of ∼600 km s−1, significantly lower than the radio galaxy sample, where median W80 values range from ∼950 to 2100 km s−1, with extended high-velocity tails exceeding 2500 km s−1. This highlights the stronger gas turbulence and outflow activity associated with radio jets.

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