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Using Chandra imaging spectroscopy and VLA L-band maps, we have identified radio galaxies at P(1.4 GHz) >= 3x10^{23} W Hz^{-1} and X-ray point sources (XPSs) at L(0.3-8 keV) >= 10^{42} ergs s^{-1} in 11 moderate redshift (0.2<z<0.4)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Quyen N. Hart , John T. Stocke , Eric J. Hallman

Optical imaging observations for 50 radio galaxies are presented. For each object isophotal contours, photometric profiles, structural parameters (position angle, ellipticity, Fourier coefficients), and total magnitudes are given. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Govoni , R. Falomo , G. Fasano , R. Scarpa

We study the impact of cluster environment on the morphology of a sample of 4304 extended radio galaxies from Radio Galaxy Zoo. A total of 87% of the sample lies within a projected 15 Mpc of an optically identified cluster. Brightest…

The origins of radio astronomy and the discovery of the first radio galaxies are described which showed that the radio emission of active galaxies is very diverse in shape and can reach a size of many times their optical extent. In 1974 the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Heinz Andernach

A reexamination of the correspondence between 6 cm radio continuum sources and young star clusters in the Antennae galaxies indicates that 85 % of the strong thermal sources have optical counterparts, once the optical image is shifted 1.2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. C. Whitmore , Q. Zhang

We have compiled a sample of 234 ultra-steep-spectrum (USS) selected radio sources in order to find high-redshift radio galaxies. The sample covers the declination range -40deg < DEC < -30deg in the overlap region between the 1400-MHz NRAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Bryant , J. W. Broderick , H. M. Johnston , R. W. Hunstead , B. M. Gaensler , C. De Breuck

We study the morphology of the radio emission of giant radio galaxies (GRGs), a rare type of active galaxies, in order to find new clues for the reasons of their large size. Using radio images from two sky surveys at 1.4 GHz we quantified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-11 Elizabeth López Vázquez , Heinz Andernach

We present deep, continuum images of eleven high-redshift (0.811 < z < 1.875) 3CR radio galaxies observed with NICMOS. Our images probe the rest-frame optical light where stars are expected to dominate the galaxy luminosity. The rest-frame…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. W. Zirm , M. Dickinson , A. Dey

We describe a new estimate of the radio galaxy 1.4 GHz luminosity function and its evolution at intermediate redshifts (z~0.4). Photometric redshifts and color selection have been used to select Bj<23.5 early-type galaxies from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. J. I. Brown , R. L. Webster , B. J. Boyle

This is the second of a series of three papers exploring the connection between the multiwavelength properties of AGN in nearby early-type galaxies and the characteristics of their hosts. In Capetti et al. (2005) we presented a study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Balmaverde , A. Capetti

We test the hypothesis that environments play a key role in enabling the growth of enormous radio structures spanning more than 700 kpc, an extreme population of radio galaxies called giant radio galaxies (GRGs). To achieve this, we explore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Ting-Wen Lan , J. Xavier Prochaska

We constructed and presented in the first paper of this series a new sample of 84 large angular size radio galaxies by selecting from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey objects with angular size > 4', declination above +60 degrees and total flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Lara , I. Marquez , W. D. Cotton , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , J. M. Marcaide , T. Venturi

Using a large sample of galaxies from the SDSS-DR7, we have analysed the alignment of disk galaxies around cosmic voids. We have constructed a complete sample of cosmic voids (devoid of galaxies brighter than M_r-5 log(h) =-20.17) with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jesús Varela , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Ignacio Trujillo , Elena Ricciardelli

The properties of the host galaxies of a well-defined sample of 2215 radio-loud AGN with redshifts 0.03 < z < 0.3, defined from the SDSS, are investigated. These are predominantly low radio luminosity sources, with 1.4GHz luminosities of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. N. Best , G. Kauffmann , T. M. Heckman , J. Brinchmann , S. Charlot , Z. Ivezic , S. D. M. White

It is well established that AGNs play an important role in the evolution of galaxies. These AGNs can be linked to the accretion processes onto massive black holes and past merger events in their host galaxies, which may lead to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Xuechen Zheng , Yuze Zhang , Huub Röttgering

To understand the feedback of black holes on their environment or the acceleration of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the present cosmic epoch, a systematic, all-sky inventory of radio galaxies in the local universe is needed. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Heino Falcke , Pim Schellart , Nils Nierstenhoefer , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Active galaxies are the most powerful engines in the Universe for converting gravitational energy into radiation, and radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars are highly luminous and can be detected across the Universe. The jets that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Belsole , D. M. Worrall , M. J. Hardcastle

We explore radio and spectroscopic properties of a sample of 14 miniature radio galaxies, i.e. early-type core galaxies hosting radio-loud AGN of extremely low radio power, 10^(27-29) erg s^(-1) Hz^(-1) at 1.4 GHz. Miniature radio galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ranieri D. Baldi , Alessandro Capetti

We examine the clustering properties of low-power radio galaxies at redshift 0.4<z<0.8, using data from the 2SLAQ Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) survey. We find that radio-detected LRGs (with optical luminosities of 3-5L* and 1.4GHz radio powers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David A. Wake , Scott M. Croom , Elaine M. Sadler , Helen M. Johnston

We have carried out optical spectroscopy with the Anglo-Australian Telescope for 24,726 objects surrounding a sample of 19 Giant Radio Galaxies (GRGs) selected to have redshifts in the range 0.05 to 0.15 and projected linear sizes from 0.8…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-16 J. M. Malarecki , D. H. Jones , L. Saripalli , L. Staveley-Smith , R. Subrahmanyan