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We present a list of candidate tailed radio galaxies using the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey Alternative Data Release 1 (TGSS ADR1) at 150 MHz. We have visually examined 5336 image fields and found 264 candidates for the tailed galaxy. Tailed radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Netai Bhukta , Sushanta K. Mondal , Sabyasachi Pal

The unique morphology of head-tail (HT) radio galaxies suggests that radio jets and their intra-cluster medium interact strongly. We conducted a systematic search for HT radio galaxies using the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey first data release…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Sabyasachi Pal , Shobha Kumari

We present a catalog of compact double radio galaxies (hereafter COMP2$CAT$) listing 43 edge-brightened radio sources whose projected linear size does not exceed 60 kpc, the typical size of their host galaxies. This is the fifth in a series…

We built a catalog of 122 FR~II radio galaxies, called FRII{\sl{CAT}}, selected from a published sample obtained by combining observations from the NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. The catalog includes sources with redshift $\leq 0.15$, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-10 A. Capetti , F. Massaro , R. D. Baldi

The head--tail (HT) morphology of radio galaxies is seen for a class of radio sources where the primary lobes are being bent in the intercluster weather due to strong interactions between the radio jets and their respective intracluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Tapan K. Sasmal , Soumen Bera , Sabyasachi Pal , Soumen Mondal

We present radio images of a sample of six Wide-Angle Tail (WAT) radio sources identified in the ATLAS 1.4 GHz radio survey, and new spectroscopic redshifts for four of these sources. These WATs are in the redshift range of 0.1469 - 0.3762,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Minnie Y. Mao , Rob Sharp , D. J. Saikia , Ray P. Norris , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Enno Middelberg , Jim E. J. Lovell

We built a catalog of 219 FRI radio galaxies (FRIs), called FRICAT, selected from a published sample and obtained by combining observations from the NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. We included in the catalog the sources with an edge-darkened…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Capetti , F. Massaro , R. D. Baldi

We present new redshifts and positions for 635 galaxies in nine rich clusters containing Wide-Angle Tailed (WAT) radio galaxies. Combined with existing data, we now have a sample of 18 WAT-containing clusters with more than 10 redshifts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason Pinkney , Jack O. Burns , Michael J. Ledlow , Percy L. Gomez , John M. Hill

The morphologies of wide-angle tailed (WAT) radio sources (edge-darkened, C-shaped, FR I radio sources) are the result of confinement and distortion of the radio lobes by the dense X-ray-emitting gas in clusters or groups of galaxies. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Blanton , M. D. Gregg , D. J. Helfand , R. H. Becker , R. L. White

We present a statistical analysis of the large-scale (up to 2 Mpc) environment of an homogeneous and complete sample, both in radio and optical selection, of wide-angle tailed radio galaxies (WATs) in the local Universe (i.e., with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 V. Missaglia , A. Paggi , F. Massaro , A. Capetti , R. D. Baldi , R. P. Kraft , M. Paolillo , A. Tramacere , R. Campana , I. Pillitteri

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

The study of Head Tail (HT) radio galaxies track the information of associated galaxy clusters. With the help of the VLA FIRST survey at 1.4 GHz, we detected 607 new HT radio sources, among them, 398 are Wide Angle Tail (WAT) and 216 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-30 Sabyasachi Pal , Shobha Kumari

We conducted an extensive identification and analysis of various morphological classes and subclasses of radio galaxies using the latest high-resolution data from the second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS DR2). This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Soumen Kumar Bera , Taotao Fang , Tapan K. Sasmal , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , Xuelei Chen , Soumen Mondal

We report the serendipitous detection of a Wide-Angle-Tail (WAT) radio galaxy at 240 and 610 MHz, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). This WAT is hosted by a cD galaxy PGC 1519010 whose photometric redshift given in the SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-24 N. G. Kantharia , M. Das , Gopal-Krishna

Wide-angle tail radio galaxies (WATs) are an uncommon class of radio sources with luminosities near the FRI/FRII break, and are usually associated with central cluster galaxies. Their defining characteristic when imaged sensitively at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Hardcastle , I. Sakelliou

We present optical identifications and redshifts for seventeen new high-redshift radio sources. Fifteen of these sources are radio galaxies; the remaining two are high-redshift, steep-spectrum, radio-loud quasars. These objects were…

We present a catalog of 971 FR-I radio galaxies (FR-Is) identified from the Very Large Array Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) survey. The identifications were made using a hybrid method that combines deep learning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 Baoqiang Lao , Xiaolong Yang , Wenjun Xiao , Tapan K. Sasmal , Yanli Zou , Didi Liu , Zhixian Liao , Ye Lu , Rushuang Zhao

We present a sample of 30 wide angle tailed radio galaxies (WATs) that we use to constrain the jet speeds in these sources. We measure the distribution of jet-sidedness ratios for the sample, and assuming that the jets are beamed, jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nazirah N. Jetha , Martin J. Hardcastle , Irini Sakelliou , .

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

This is the second in a series of papers presenting observations and results for a sample of 76 ultra-steep-spectrum (USS) radio sources in the southern hemisphere designed to find galaxies at high redshift. Here we focus on the optical…

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