PROBING THE DYNAMICS OF JETS AND CLUSTERS WITH WATS

Wideangle tail radio galaxies (WATs) have distinctive radio properties and arewithin rich clusters. Most importantly, our recent work has provided evidencethat their relativistic smallscale jets disrupt and decelerate significantly atthe ISM/ICM interface. We now propose observations of a small sample of WATclusters to test this. With these data we will: locate the position of theinterface, measure the properties of the medium on either side, and uncover finestructure in the hot gas due to the motion of the galaxies and/or clustermergers. This investigation will enable us to resolve some outstanding puzzles:what disrupts (terminates and bends) their jets? Are they within cooling flows?Are their clusters merger remnants? truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]