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In recent years, the use of tailed radio galaxies as environmental probes has gained momentum as a method for galaxy cluster detection, examining the dynamics of individual clusters, measuring the density and velocity flows in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-27 S. Dehghan , M. Johnston-Hollitt

We describe a program to identify optical counterparts to radio sources from the VLA FIRST survey using the Cambridge APM scans of the POSS-I plates. We use radio observations covering 4150 square degrees of the north Galactic cap to a 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard G. McMahon , Richard L. White , David J. Helfand , Robert H. Becker

We present MargNet, a deep learning-based classifier for identifying stars, quasars and compact galaxies using photometric parameters and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 16 (DR16) catalogue. MargNet consists of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Siddharth Chaini , Atharva Bagul , Anish Deshpande , Rishi Gondkar , Kaushal Sharma , M. Vivek , Ajit Kembhavi

We present a new sample of Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) sources with radio luminosity below 10^26 W/Hz at 1.4 GHz called the low luminosity compact (LLC) objects. The sources have been selected from FIRST survey and observed with MERLIN at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , M. P. Gawronski , A. Labiano , A. Siemiginowska

A sample of 2712 radio-luminous galaxies is defined from the second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by cross-comparing the main spectroscopic galaxy sample with two radio surveys: the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. N. Best , G. Kauffmann , T. M. Heckman , Z. Ivezic

In this paper we introduce a reliable, fully automated and fast algorithm to detect extended extragalactic radio sources (cluster of galaxies, filaments) in existing and forthcoming surveys (like LOFAR and SKA). The proposed solution is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede

A new class of low-power compact radio sources with limited jet structures, named FR0, is emerging from recent radio-optical surveys. This abundant population of radio galaxies, five times more numerous than FRIs in the local Universe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Ranieri D. Baldi , Eleonora Torresi , Giulia Migliori , Barbara Balmaverde

Published data from long-term observations of a strip of sky at declination +5 degrees carried out at 7.6 cm on the RATAN-600 radio telescope are used to estimate some statistical properties of radio sources. Limits on the sensitivity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-24 Yu. N. Parijskij , N. S. Soboleva , A. V. Temirova , N. N. Bursov , O. P. Zhelenkova

The volume of data from current and future observatories has motivated the increased development and application of automated machine learning methodologies for astronomy. However, less attention has been given to the production of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-19 Fiona A. M. Porter , Anna M. M. Scaife

Bent-double radio sources can act as tracers for clusters of galaxies. We present imaging and spectroscopic observations of the environments surrounding ten of these sources (most of them Wide Angle Tails (WATs)) selected from the VLA FIRST…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. L. Blanton , M. D. Gregg , D. J. Helfand , R. H. Becker , R. L. White

We explore a new Bayesian method of detecting galaxies from radio interferometric data of the faint sky. Working in the Fourier domain, we fit a single, parameterised galaxy model to simulated visibility data of star-forming galaxies. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Adam Malyali , Marzia Rivi , Filipe B. Abdalla , Jason D. McEwen

Infrared-Faint Radio Sources (IFRSs) are a class of source which are bright at radio frequencies, but do not appear in deep infrared images. We report the detection of 14 IFRSs within the Spitzer extragalactic First Look Survey field, eight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Timothy Garn , Paul Alexander

Formation-flying studies to date have required continuous and minute corrections of the orbital elements and attitudes of the spacecraft.This increases the complexity, and associated risk, of controlling the formation, which often makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jan E. S. Bergman , Richard J. Blott , Alistair B. Forbes , David A. Humphreys , David W. Robinson , Constantinos Stavrinidis

Creating radio galaxy catalogues from next-generation deep surveys requires automated identification of associated components of extended sources and their corresponding infrared hosts. In this paper, we introduce RadioGalaxyNET, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Nikhel Gupta , Zeeshan Hayder , Ray P. Norris , Minh Huynh , Lars Petersson

The first unbiased surveys for high-redshift galaxies in the submillimeter (submm) and far-infrared (FIR) wavebands have been made over the last two years. When combined with the intensity of extragalactic background radiation in the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew W. Blain

We present the results from a study with NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to determine the radio morphologies of extended radio sources and the properties of their host galaxies in 50 massive galaxy clusters at z~1. We find a…

Recently a population of compact radio galaxies were classified as Fanaroff-Riley type 0 radio galaxies (FR 0s). The physical nature of FR 0s and the connection with the classical FR I and II galaxies are not currently well understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 X. -P. Cheng , T. An

New-generation radio telescopes like LOFAR are conducting extensive sky surveys, detecting millions of sources. To maximise the scientific value of these surveys, radio source components must be properly associated into physical sources…

With the aim of exploring the properties of the class of FR0 radio galaxies, we selected a sample of 108 compact radio sources, called FR0CAT, by combining observations from the NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. The catalog includes sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 R. D. Baldi , A. Capetti , F. Massaro

This paper presents a novel method for classifying radio frequency (RF) devices from their transmission signals. Given a collection of signals from identical devices, we accurately classify both the distance of the transmission and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Ryan M. Dreifuerst , Andrew Graff , Sidharth Kumar , Clive Unger , Dylan Bray