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We have compiled a sample of 234 ultra-steep-spectrum(USS)-selected radio sources in order to find high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs). The sample is in the southern sky at -40 deg < DEC < -30 deg which is the overlap region of the 408-MHz…

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

(abridged) We study the composition of the faint radio population selected from the VLA-COSMOS 3GHz Large Project. The survey covers a 2.6sq.deg. area with a mean rms of ~2.3uJy/b, cataloging 10830 sources (>5sigma). Combining these radio…

We present the results of K-band imaging polarimetry of seven 3CR radio galaxies at redshifts (z) between 0.7 and 1.2. We find strong evidence for polarization in three sources: 3C 22, 3C 41 and 3C 114. Of these, 3C 41 shows strong evidence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Leyshon , Stephen A. Eales

We examine the behaviour of the infrared-radio correlation (IRRC) over the range $0<z<6$ using new, highly sensitive 3GHz observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and infrared data from the Herschel Space Observatory in…

We report the results from a 200 ks Chandra observation of the z=1.786 radio galaxy 3C294 and its cluster environment, increasing by tenfold our earlier observation. The diffuse emission, extending about 100 kpc around the nucleus, has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders , C. S. Crawford , S. Ettori

The large number of differences between high- and low-redshift radio galaxies have almost all been discovered by looking at the bright 3C sample of radio sources. This has the disadvantage that the strong correlation between radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Eales

The CoNFIG (Combined NVSS-FIRST Galaxies) sample is a new sample of 274 bright radio sources at 1.4 GHz. It was defined by selecting all sources with S_1.4GHz > 1.3 Jy from the NRAO-VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) in the North field of the Faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Gendre , J. V. Wall

Chandra and XMM-Newton have resolved the 2-8 keV X-ray Background (XRB) into point sources. Many of the fainter sources are obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) with column densities in the range of 10^22-10^23 pcmsq, some of which have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Fabian , R. J. Wilman , C. S. Crawford

We report results of an 18 ks exposure with the ACIS instrument on Chandra of the powerful z = 0.62 radio galaxy 3C 220.1. The X-ray emission separates into cluster gas of emission-weighted kT ~ 5 keV and 0.7-12 keV luminosity (to a radius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , M. J. Hardcastle , C. R. Lawrence

The ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North observation is used to study the extended X-ray sources in the region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N), yielding the most sensitive probe of extended X-ray emission at cosmological distances…

We describe progress in a programme to study a sample of sources typical of those which contribute a large fraction of the hard X-ray background. The sources are selected from the fields of approximately 10 ks Chandra cluster observations…

Models for the origin of the hard X-ray background have suggested that sources with the most accretion activity lie hidden in highly obscured AGN. We report on our study of hard, serendipitous sources in the fields of Chandra clusters with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Gandhi , A. C. Fabian , C. S. Crawford

We present an analysis of four complete samples of radio-loud AGN (3CRR, 2Jy, 6CE and 7CE) using near- and mid-IR data taken by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The combined sample consists of 79 quasars and 273 radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-25 G. Gurkan , M. J. Hardcastle , M. J. Jarvis

We have recently used the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters (FIRST) survey to show that red quasars have fundamentally different radio properties to typical blue quasars: a significant (factor $\sim3$) enhancement in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-10 V. A. Fawcett , D. M. Alexander , D. J. Rosario , L. Klindt , S. Fotopoulou , E. Lusso , L. K. Morabito , G. Calistro Rivera

Submillimeter (and in some cases millimeter) wavelength continuum measurements are presented for a sample of 40 active galactic nuclei (probably all quasars) lensed by foreground galaxies. The object of this study is to use the lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Barvainis , Rob Ivison

We present the final observations of a complete sample of 37 radio galaxies from the Third Cambridge Catalog (3C) with redshift <0.3 and declination <20 degrees obtained with the VLT/MUSE optical integral field spectrograph. These data were…

We use a principal components analysis of radio-selected (3CRR, 6CE and 7CRS) AGN datasets to define two parameters related to low-frequency (151 MHz) radio luminosity L_151 and [OIII] luminosity L_[OIII]: a parameter alpha encoding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jennifer A. Grimes , Steve Rawlings , Chris J. Willott

We present the first results of the Chandra and optical follow-up observations of hard X-ray sources detected in the ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey (AMSS). Optical identifications are made for five objects. Three of them show either weak or…

I review some recent cosmological studies based on redshift surveys of radio sources selected at low frequencies. The accretion rate onto the central black hole is identified as the basis of a crude physical division of the low-frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Rawlings

We have obtained near-infrared spectroscopy of a small sample of powerful Compact Steep-Spectrum (CSS) radio sources mainly, but not exclusively, from the 3CR sample. We find no differences between the distributions in the equivalent width…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Hirst , Neal Jackson , Steve Rawlings