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There are a number of theories explaining the nature of the so-called X-shaped radio sources. According to one of them, an X-shaped source is indeed a cross whose one arm is associated with a double radio source that has changed its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-14 Andrzej Marecki

Giant radio sources, including galaxies and quasars (hereafter GRGs), are active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosting relativistic jets with source sizes exceeding the projected length of 0.7 Mpc. They are crucial to understanding the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , Gabriele Bruni , Alberto Dominguez , C. S. Stalin

Existing radio images of a few X-shaped radio galaxies reveal Z-symmetric morphologies in their weaker secondary lobes which cannot be naturally explained by either the galactic merger or radio-lobe backflow scenarios, the two dominant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gopal-Krishna , Peter L. Biermann , Paul J. Wiita

We carry out classification of 4330 X-ray sources in the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog. They are selected under the requirement of being a point source with multiple XMM-Newton observations and at least one detection with the signal-to-noise ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Dacheng Lin , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

We report optical spectroscopic observations of X-shaped radio sources with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and Multiple-Mirror Telescope, focused on the sample of candidates from the FIRST survey presented in Paper I (Cheung 2007). A total of…

We study the space density evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the $610 \ \mathrm{MHz}$ radio survey of the XXL-North field, performed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The survey covers an area of $30.4 \…

The rapid variability of X-ray binaries produces a wide range of X-ray states that are linked to activity across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is particularly challenging to study a sample of sources large enough to include all types in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 John M. Dickey , S. D. Vrtilek , Michael McCollough , Bram Boroson , John A. Tomsick , Charles Bailyn , Jay M. Blanchard , Charlotte Johnson

X-shaped Radio Galaxies (XRGs) develop when certain extra-galactic jets deviate from their propagation path. An asymmetric ambient medium (Back-flow model) or complex Active Galactic Nuclei activity (Jet-reorientation model) enforcing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-01 Gourab Giri , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

Radio sources with steep and ultra-steep spectra, identified through a series of surveys of the Cold experiment using the RATAN-600 radio telescope, formed the basis of the Big Trio program aimed at discovering distant radio galaxies. With…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Olga Zhelenkova , Adelina Temirova , Yurij Parijskij , Natalia Soboleva

We present the scientific goals, the strategy and the first results of the REX project, an effort aimed at creating a sizable and statistically complete sample of Radio Emitting X-ray sources (REX) using the available data from a VLA survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Caccianiga , T. Maccacaro , A. Wolter , R. Della Ceca , I. M. Gioia

Observations of present and future X-ray telescopes include a large number of serendipidious sources of unknown types. They are a rich source of knowledge about X-ray dominated astronomical objects, their distribution, and their evolution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Houri Ziaeepour , Simon Rosen

Studying the morphology of a large sample of active galaxies at different wavelengths and comparing it with active galactic nuclei (AGN) properties, such as black hole mass ($M_{BH}$) and Eddington ratio ($\lambda_{Edd}$), can help us in…

We present the global X-ray properties of the point source population in the grand-design spiral galaxy M101, as seen with XMM-Newton. 108 X-ray sources are detected within the D25 ellipse of M101, of which ~24 are estimated to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. P. Jenkins , T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick , R. E. Kilgard , M. J. Ward

Bent-double radio sources have been used as a probe to measure the density of intergalactic gas in galaxy groups. We carry out a series of high-resolution, 3D simulations of AGN jets moving through an external medium with a constant density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Brian J. Morsony , Jacob J. Miller , Sebastian Heinz , Emily Freeland , Eric Wilcots , Marcus Brueggen , Mateusz Ruszkowski

We studied bent radio sources within X-ray galaxy groups in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields, using radio data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Explorations data release 1 (MIGHTEE-DR1) at 1.2-1.3 GHz (angular…

After a brief, critical review of the leading explanations proposed for the small but important subset of radio galaxies showing an X-shaped morphology (XRGs) we propose a generalized model, based on the jet-shell interaction and spin-flip…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gopal-Krishna , Peter L. Biermann , László Á. Gergely , Paul J. Wiita

With their sizes larger than 0.7 Mpc, Giant Radio Galaxies (GRGs) are the largest individual objects in the Universe. To date, the reason why they reach such enormous extensions is still unclear. One of the proposed scenarios suggests that…

We present new spectroscopic identifications of 12 X-shaped radio galaxies and use the spectral data to derive starburst histories and masses of the nuclear supermassive black holes in these galaxies. The observations were done with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-18 M. Mezcua , V. H. Chavushyan , A. P. Lobanov , J. León-Tavares

Context: The INTEGRAL hard X-ray observatory has revealed an emerging population of highly obscured X-ray binary systems through multi-wavelength observations. Previous studies have shown that many of these sources are high-mass X-ray…

We present new 144-MHz LOFAR observations of the prototypical `X-shaped' radio galaxy NGC 326, which show that the formerly known wings of the radio lobes extend smoothly into a large-scale, complex radio structure. We argue that this…