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Active Galaxies with Radio Trails in Clusters

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New radio data and a critical examination of the interacting galaxies hypothesis to explain complex radio sources in clusters lead us to reject a causal relation between sources in clusters. Instead, the “head–tail” radio galaxies are proposed to represent radio trails of galaxies, active in their own right, along trajectories through a dense intergalactic medium.

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    G. K. MILEY, G. C. PEROLA, P. C. VAN DER KRUIT & H. VAN DER LAAN

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MILEY, G., PEROLA, G., KRUIT, P. et al. Active Galaxies with Radio Trails in Clusters. Nature 237, 269–272 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237269a0

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