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Recent hydrodynamic simulations and observations of radio jets have shown that the surrounding environment has a large effect on their resulting morphology. To investigate this we use a sample of 50 Extended Radio Active Galactic Nuclei…

Galaxy clusters are known to host a variety of extended radio sources: tailed radio galaxies whose shape is modelled by the interaction with the intra-cluster medium (ICM); radio bubbles filling cavities in the ICM distribution and rising…

Low-frequency radio observations of galaxy clusters are the key to detecting the diffuse extended emission associated with them. The presence and properties of such radio sources in galaxy clusters reveal the existence of magnetic fields on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. F. Pizzo , A. G. de Bruyn , L. Feretti , F. Govoni

Simulations of structure formation in the Universe predict accretion shock waves at the boundaries of the large-scale structures as sheets, filaments, and clusters of galaxies. If magnetic fields are present at these shocks, particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin , Peter L. Biermann , Ulrich Klein , Sven Kohle

The persistence of radiative signatures in giant radio galaxies remains a frontier topic of research, with contemporary telescopes revealing intricate features that require investigation. This study aims to examine the emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Gourab Giri , Christian Fendt , Joydeep Bagchi , Kshitij Thorat , D. J. Saikia , Roger P. Deane , Jacinta Delhaize

The LOw Frequency ARray Two-metre Sky Survey second data release (LoTSS DR2) covers 27\% of the northern sky and contains around four million radio sources. The development of this catalogue involved a large citizen science project (Radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Maya Horton , Martin Hardcastle , George Miley , Cyril Tasse , Timothy Shimwell

Tailed radio galaxies are powerful tracers of interactions between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the intracluster medium (ICM), providing unique insights into cluster dynamics. We present LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) 144 MHz and uGMRT 400…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-12 Abdul Gani , Roland Timmerman , Leah K. Morabito , Ruta Kale , Satish S. Sonkamble , Arpan Pal , Sravani Vaddi

The clustering properties of objects in 3 different radio surveys (NVSS, FIRST and BOOTES-WSRT) and 2 near-infrared surveys (the ``Daddi field'' and the FIRES survey) are investigated and compared with studies of various samples of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Huub Rottgering , Emanuele Daddi , Roderik Overzier , Richard Wilman

We present the results of our multiwavelength study of two nearby Abell clusters that contain extended tailed radio sources. From our analysis of PSPC X-ray, VLA radio, and optical data, we find strong evidence that these clusters are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Percy L. Gomez , Michael J. Ledlow , Jack O. Burns , Jason Pinkney , John M. Hill

We report the discovery of two tailed radio galaxies in the COSMOS field, associated with a massive, dynamically unrelaxed galaxy group detected in X-rays at z = 0.349. One of them is a wide-angle tail (WAT) galaxy, supporting the role of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Paula Vulić , Vernesa Smolčić , Ghassem Gozaliasl , Ivan Delvecchio , Alexis Finoguenov

The knowledge of the origin and statistical properties of diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters has appreciably improved thanks to the GMRT Radio Halo Survey, a project based on 610 MHz observations of clusters belonging to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-10 Simona Giacintucci

We present results from a study of seven large known head-tail radio galaxies based on observations using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope at 240 and 610 MHz. These observations are used to study the radio morphologies and distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Biny Sebastian , Dharam V. Lal , A. Pramesh Rao

We present measurements of the clustering properties of galaxies in the field of redshift range $0.5 \lesssim z \lesssim 1.5$ Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS) radio sources selected from Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey and NRAO VLA Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos G. Bornancini , Nelson Padilla , Diego G. Lambas , Carlos De Breuck

From ROSAT imaging data we have detections and upper limits for a sample of 26 tailed radio sources in clusters of galaxies mostly from the sample of O'Dea \& Owen (1985). All sixteen of the detected sources are unresolved in the ROSAT PSPC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Edge H. Roettgering

We describe three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical modelling of powerful radio galaxies in realistic poor cluster environments. This modelling extends our earlier work on the hydrodynamics of radio galaxies as a function of their cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Hardcastle , M. G. H. Krause

This article gives a brief historical introduction and reviews our current understanding of jets in radio galaxies and quasars from an observational perspective, with an emphasis on observations at radio wavelengths. Recent results on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 D. J. Saikia

The role played by the large-scale environment on the nuclear activity of radio galaxies (RGs), is still not completely understood. Accretion mode, jet power and galaxy evolution are connected with their large-scale environment from tens to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-17 F. Massaro , N. Álvarez-Crespo , A. Capetti , R. D. Baldi , I. Pillitteri , R. Campana , A. Paggi

Context. Tailed radio galaxies are shaped by ram pressure owing to the high-velocity motion of their host through the intracluster medium (ICM). Recent works have reported on the increasing complexity of the phenomenology of tailed…

We outline the science case for extended radio emission and polarization in galaxy clusters which would be a scientifically important area of research for an upcoming Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey. The survey would provide a major…

One of the fascinating topics in radio astronomy is how to associate the complexity of observed radio structures to their environment, in order to understand their interplay and the reason for the plethora of radio structures found in…