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Radio sources with steep and ultra-steep spectra, identified through a series of surveys of the Cold experiment using the RATAN-600 radio telescope, formed the basis of the Big Trio program aimed at discovering distant radio galaxies. With…

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We analyse the 267 radio sources from our deep (flux limit of 42 microJy at the field center at 1.4 GHz) Chandra Deep Field South 1.4 and 5 GHz VLA survey. The radio population is studied by using a wealth of multi-wavelength information,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Padovani , V. Mainieri , P. Tozzi , K. I. Kellermann , E. B. Fomalont , N. Miller , P. Rosati , P. Shaver

We present sub-arcsecond ($\theta\sim0.1^{\prime\prime}$) resolution VLA 1.3 cm continuum and 22.2 GHz H$_2$O maser observations toward 15 compact radio continuum sources with rising spectral index and 8 string-like radio continuum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Tatiana M. Rodriguez , Peter Hofner , Emmanuel Momjian , Esteban D. Araya , Ananay Sethi , Viviana Rosero

We have observed a sample of 64 small diameter sources towards the central -6 degree < l< 6 degree, -2 degree < b < 2 degree of the Galaxy with the aim of studying the Faraday rotation measure near the Galactic Centre (GC) region. All the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

Neutral atomic hydrogen and molecular gas in the host galaxies of radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be traced using H I 21-cm and OH-1667 MHz absorption lines to understand the fueling and feedback processes. We present the results of…

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The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is observing the entire sky north of $-40^{\circ}$ in the S-band ($2<\nu<4\,$GHz), with the highest angular resolution ($2''.5$) of any all-sky radio continuum survey to date. VLASS will cover its…

Deep radio observations at 5 and 8 GHz are presented of a complete sample of 11 radio galaxies with redshifts 0.85 < z < 1.5, selected from the 6C sample of Eales. The radio data, taken using the VLA in A, B and C array configurations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. N. Best , S. A. Eales , S. Rawlings , H. J. A. R"ottgering , M. S. Longair

Observational studies of GHz peaked spectrum (GPS) sources contribute to the understanding of the radiative properties and interstellar environment of host galaxies. We present the results from the multi-frequency high-resolution VLBI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Xiaopeng Cheng , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Sumit Jaiswal

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 present deep WSRT 1.4 GHz observations of the Hubble Deep Field region. At the 5 sigma level, the WSRT clearly detects 85 regions of radio emission in a 10' x 10' field centred on the HDF. Eight of these regions fall within the HDF…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Garrett , A. G. de Bruyn , M. Giroletti , W. A. Baan , R. T. Schilizzi

X-shaped radio galaxies are a subclass of radio sources that exhibit a pair of secondary low surface brightness radio lobes oriented at an angle to the primary high surface brightness lobes. Sometimes, the secondary low brightened lobes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-01 Soumen Bera , Sabyasachi Pal , Tapan K. Sasmal , Soumen Mondal

We report the result of optical identifications of FIRST radio sources with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program survey (HSC-SSP). The positional cross-match within 1" between the FIRST and HSC-SSP catalogs (i ~< 26) produced more…

We present an HI 21cm absorption study of a sample of 26 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) at $0.25 < z < 0.4$ carried out with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. Our aim was to study the rate of incidence of HI in various classes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Suma Murthy , Raffaella Morganti , Tom Oosterloo , Filippo M. Maccagni

We present observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 3 GHz toward a sub-field of the XXL-North 25 deg$^{2}$ field targeting the first supercluster discovered in the XXL Survey. The structure has been found at a…

The results of the analysis of 205 brightest sources ( $S>15$ mJy), which were found in the sky survey at the declination of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, are presented. The survey was conducted at a frequency of 4.7~GHz using a three-beam…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 A. A. Kudryashova , N. N. Bursov , S. A. Trushkin

We present a comprehensive study of host galaxies of radio sources within the 1.35$R_{200}$ of the Coma cluster by combining deep 144MHz observations from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR2) with optical spectroscopy and photometry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Xiaolan Hou , Heng Yu , Tong Pan , Hu Zou , Haoran Dou , Emily Moravec , Chengkui Li

We present a 6GHz radio continuum image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 ($z = 0.307$) obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) as part of the VLA Frontier Fields program, whose goal is to explore the radio continuum emission…

The first Fermi-LAT High-energy source catalog (1FHL), containing gamma-ray sources detected above 10 GeV, is an ideal sample to characterize the physical properties of the most extreme gamma-ray sources. We investigate the pc scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 R. Lico , M. Giroletti , M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando

We report the discovery of HI 21-cm absorption towards the well-studied GHz Peaked-Spectrum source CTA 21 (4C 16.09) using the Arecibo Telescope on 2009 September 20 and 21. Recently, the frequency band between 700 and 800 MHz was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. J. Salter , D. J. Saikia , R. Minchin , T. Ghosh , Y. Chandola

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