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We have undertaken a systematic study of FRI and FRII radio galaxies with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and MeerKAT. The main goal is to explore whether the unprecedented few $\mu$Jy sensitivity reached in the range…

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Despite their importance for astrometry and navigation, the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that comprise the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) are relatively poorly understood, with key information such as their spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Remington O. Sexton , Nathan J. Secrest , Megan C. Johnson , Bryan N. Dorland

We have observed seven nearby large angular sized galaxies at 0.33 GHz using GMRT with angular resolution of $\sim10''$ and sub-mJy sensitivity. Using archival higher frequency data at 1.4 or $\sim$6 GHz, we have then determined their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 Subhashis Roy , Souvik Manna

In recent years, arrays of radio antennas operating in the MHz regime have shown great potential as detectors in astroparticle physics. In particular, they fulfill an important role in the indirect detection of ultra-high energy cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Max Büsken , Tomáš Fodran , Tim Huege

This is the third in a series of papers that present observations and results for a sample of 76 ultra-steep-spectrum radio sources designed to find galaxies at high redshift. Here we present multi-frequency radio observations, from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. J. Klamer , R. D. Ekers , J. J. Bryant , R. W. Hunstead , E. M. Sadler , C. De Breuck

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to development of RM surveys that have produced large catalogs, as well as…

A new catalogue of extended radio sources has been prepared based on arcminute-resolution 1420 MHz images from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The new catalogue provides both 1420 MHz and 408 MHz flux density measurements on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 C. R. Kerton , J. Murphy , J. Patterson

The GLOSTAR survey will study the star formation in the Galactic plane between $-2^{\circ}< \textit{l}< 85^{\circ}$ and $|b| < 1^{\circ}$ with unprecedented sensitivity in both, flux density ($\sim$ 40 $\mu Jy$ beam$^{-1}$) and range of…

The indirect detection of cosmic rays via the radio signal of extensive air showers is gaining a lot of ground. Many new arrays of radio antennas are under construction or in the phase of development. Calibrating these arrays is important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Max Büsken , Tomáš Fodran , Tim Huege

We use the 6C** sample to investigate the co-moving space density of powerful, steep-spectrum radio sources. This sample, consisting of 68 objects, has virtually complete K-band photometry and spectroscopic redshifts for 32 per cent of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maria J. Cruz , Matt J. Jarvis , Steve Rawlings , Katherine M. Blundell

We present results from a 49.4 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the nearby ($z$=0.059) X-shaped FRII radio galaxy 3C~403. This is the first Chandra observation of an X-shaped radio galaxy, and one of the goals of this pioneering study is to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Kraft , M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall , S. S. Murray

We present LOFAR High-Band Array (HBA) observations of the Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole survey area. The survey we have carried out, consisting of four pointings covering around 142 square degrees of sky in the frequency range…

It is anticipated that future space-born missions, such as Gaia, will be able to determine in optical domain positions of more than 100,000 bright quasars with sub-mas accuracies that are comparable to very long baseline interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-13 Leonid Petrov

We report on multi-frequency, wideband radio observations of the Galactic Center magnetar (SGR 1745$-$2900) with the Green Bank Telescope for $\sim$100 days immediately following its initial X-ray outburst in April 2013. We made multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 T. T. Pennucci , A. Possenti , P. Esposito , N. Rea , D. Haggard , F. K. Baganoff , M. Burgay , F. Coti Zelati , G. L. Israel , A. Minter

We develop a new method of extracting simultaneous measurements of weak lensing shear and a local rotation of the plane of polarization using observations of resolved radio sources. We show that the direction of polarization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Lee Whittaker , Richard A. Battye , Michael L. Brown

Positions and proper motions of Gaia sources are expressed in a reference frame that ideally should be non-rotating relative to distant extragalactic objects, coincident with the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-15 Lennart Lindegren

We use methods of differential astrometry to construct a small field inertial reference frame stable at the micro-arcsecond level. Such a high level of astrometric precision can be expected with the end-of-mission standard errors to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 U. Abbas , B. Bucciarelli , M. G. Lattanzi , M. Crosta , M. Gai , R. Smart , A. Sozzetti , A. Vecchiato

An asymmetric relativistic model for FRII radio sources is described which takes account of both relativistic effects and intrinsic/environmental asymmetries to explain the observed structural asymmetry of their radio lobes. A key feature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tigran G. Arshakian , Malcolm S. Longair

We describe a method to construct continuum spectra for radio sources on the basis of entries from various source catalogues in comparatively large error boxes around a given sky position. Sources from the UTR-2 catalogue (Braude et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Verkhodanov , H. Andernach , N. V. Verkhodanova

The vast majority of extragalactic compact continuum radio sources are associated with star formation or jets from (super)massive black holes and, as such, are more likely to be found in association with starburst galaxies or early-type…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 D. Vohl , H. K. Vedantham , J. W. T. Hessels , C. G. Bassa , D. O. Cook , D. L. Kaplan , T. W. Shimwell , C. Zhang