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Blazars are radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose jets have a very small angle to our line of sight. Observationally, the radio emission are mostly compact or a compact-core with a 1-sided jet. With 2.5$^{\prime\prime}$ resolution…

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey of the Northern sky. The LoTSS First Data Release (DR1) presents 424 square degrees of radio continuum observations over the HETDEX Spring Field…

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…

Building the radio sky template are crucial for detecting the 21 cm emission line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), as well as for other cosmological research endeavors. Utilizing data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinyang Lin , Zhenghao Zhu , Renyi Ma , Anna Bonaldi , Huanyuan Shan

Giant radio halos are mega-parsec scale synchrotron sources detected in a fraction of massive and merging galaxy clusters. Radio halos provide one of the most important pieces of evidence for non-thermal components in large scale structure.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , H. J. A. Rottgering , M. Bruggen

Aims. The orientation-based unification scheme of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) asserts that radio galaxies and quasars are essentially the same type of object, but viewed from different angles. To test this unification model, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-04 Tong Pan , Yuming Fu , H. J. A. Rottgering , R. J. van Weeren , A. B. Drake , B. H. Yue , J. W. Petley

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing survey aiming to observe the entire Northern sky, providing an excellent opportunity to study the distribution and evolution of the large-scale structure of the Universe. The source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Prabhakar Tiwari , Ruiyang Zhao , Jinglan Zheng , Gong-Bo Zhao , David Bacon , Dominik J. Schwarz

The new generation of high-resolution broad-band radio telescopes, like the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), produces, depending on the level of compression, between 1 to 10 TB of data per hour after correlation. Such a large amount of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 A. Drabent , M. Hoeft , A. P. Mechev , J. B. R. Oonk , T. W. Shimwell , F. Sweijen , A. Danezi , C. Schrijvers , C. Manzano , O. Tsigenov , R. -J. Dettmar , M. Brüggen , D. J. Schwarz

We present the third data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR3). The survey images cover 88% of the northern sky and were created from 12,950 hrs of data (18.6 PB) accumulated over 10.5 years. The images were produced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-19 T. W. Shimwell , M. J. Hardcastle , C. Tasse , A. Drabent , A. Botteon , W. L. Williams , P. N. Best , H. J. A. Röttgering , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , J. R. Callingham , K. T. Chyży , J. E. Conway , F. De Gasperin , M. Haverkorn , C. Horellou , N. Jackson , G. K. Miley , L. K. Morabito , R. Morganti , S. P. O'Sullivan , D. J. Schwarz , D. J. B. Smith , R. J. van Weeren , H. K. Vedantham , G. J. White , A. Ahmadi , L. Alegre , M. Arias , B. Asabere , B. Bahr-Kalus , B. Barkus , M. Bilicki , L. Böhme , M. Brentjens , M. Brienza , D. J. Bomans , A. Bonafede , M. Bonato , E. Bonnassieux , J. M. Boxelaar , S. Camera , R. Cassano , J. Chilufya , M. Cianfaglione , J. H. Croston , V. Cuciti , P. Dabhade , E. De Rubeis , J. M. G. H. J. de Jong , D. Dallacasa , R. J. Dettmar , K. J. Duncan , G. Di Gennaro , H. W. Edler , C. Groeneveld , G. Gürkan , M. Hajduk , C. L. Hale , V. Heesen , D. N. Hoang , M. Hoeft , H. Holties , M. A. Horton , M. Iacobelli , M. Jamrozy , M. J. Jarvis , V. Jelic , M. Kadler , R. Kondapally , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , M. Loose , M. Magliocchetti , K. Małek , C. Manzano , J. P. McKean , M. Mevius , B. Mingo , A. Miskolczi , A. Misra , J. Moldón , D. G. Nair , S. J. Nakoneczny , E. Orru , M. Pashapour-Ahmadabadi , T. Pasini , J. Petley , J. C. S. Pierce , I. Prandoni , D. Rafferty , K. Rajpurohit , C. J. Riseley , I. D. Roberts , S. Sethi , A. Shulevski , M. Stein , C. Stuardi , F. Sweijen , S. ter Veen , R. Timmerman , M. Vaccari , S. Wijnholds

We consider the problem of determining the host galaxies of radio sources by cross-identification. This has traditionally been done manually, which will be intractable for wide-area radio surveys like the Evolutionary Map of the Universe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-18 M. J. Alger , J. K. Banfield , C. S. Ong , L. Rudnick , O. I. Wong , C. Wolf , H. Andernach , R. P. Norris , S. S. Shabala

We cross-correlated galaxies from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) second data release (DR2) radio source with the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample to…

We combine the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) second data release (DR2) catalogue with gravitational lensing maps from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to place constraints on the bias evolution of LoTSS radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 S. J. Nakoneczny , D. Alonso , M. Bilicki , D. J. Schwarz , C. L. Hale , A. Pollo , C. Heneka , P. Tiwari , J. Zheng , M. Brüggen , M. J. Jarvis , T. W. Shimwell

The relative positions of the high and low surface brightness regions of radio-loud active galaxies in the 3CR sample were found by Fanaroff and Riley to be correlated with their luminosity. We revisit this canonical relationship with a…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It is, however, very challenging to synthesize thermal noise…

In this data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) we present 120-168MHz images covering 27% of the northern sky. Our coverage is split into two regions centred at approximately 12h45m +44$^\circ$30' and 1h00m +28$^\circ$00'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-25 T. W. Shimwell , M. J. Hardcastle , C. Tasse , P. N. Best , H. J. A. Röttgering , W. L. Williams , A. Botteon , A. Drabent , A. Mechev , A. Shulevski , R. J. van Weeren , L. Bester , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , J. R. Callingham , K. T. Chyży , J. E. Conway , T. J. Dijkema , K. Duncan , F. de Gasperin , C. L. Hale , M. Haverkorn , B. Hugo , N. Jackson , M. Mevius , G. K. Miley , L. K. Morabito , R. Morganti , A. Offringa , J. B. R. Oonk , D. Rafferty , J. Sabater , D. J. B. Smith , D. J. Schwarz , O. Smirnov , S. P. O'Sullivan , H. Vedantham , G. J. White , J. G. Albert , L. Alegre , B. Asabere , D. J. Bacon , A. Bonafede , E. Bonnassieux , M. Brienza , M. Bilicki , M. Bonato , G. Calistro Rivera , R. Cassano , R. Cochrane , J. H. Croston , V. Cuciti , D. Dallacasa , A. Danezi , R. J. Dettmar , G. Di Gennaro , H. W. Edler , T. A. Enßlin , K. L. Emig , T. M. O. Franzen , C. García-Vergara , Y. G. Grange , G. Gürkan , M. Hajduk , G. Heald , V. Heesen , D. N. Hoang , M. Hoeft , C. Horellou , M. Iacobelli , M. Jamrozy , V. Jelić , R. Kondapally , P. Kukreti , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , M. Magliocchetti , V. Mahatma , K. Małek , S. Mandal , F. Massaro , Z. Meyer-Zhao , B. Mingo , R. I. J. Mostert , D. G. Nair , S. J. Nakoneczny , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , E. Orrú , U. Pajdosz-Śmierciak , T. Pasini , I. Prandoni , H. E. van Piggelen , K. Rajpurohit , E. Retana-Montenegro , C. J. Riseley , A. Rowlinson , A. Saxena , C. Schrijvers , F. Sweijen , T. M. Siewert , R. Timmerman , M. Vaccari , J. Vink , J. L. West , A. Wołowska , X. Zhang , J. Zheng

(abbreviated): This paper presents the results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all known (96) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) at D<19Mpc. We find that almost half of all LINERs and low-luminosity Seyferts have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. M. Nagar , H. Falcke , A. S. Wilson , J. S. Ulvestad

We present a catalogue of optical and near-infrared counterparts to radio sources detected in the Euclid Deep Field North (EDF-N) using observations from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) High Band Antenna (HBA) at 144 MHz with 6 arcsec…

Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Xu-Liang Fan , Jie Li

Spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting has been extensively used to determine the nature of the faint radio source population. Recent efforts have combined fits from multiple SED-fitting codes to account for the host galaxy and any…

We present a detailed depolarization analysis of the radio galaxy \texttt{ILTJ012215.21+254334.8} using polarimetric data from the \textit{LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey} (LoTSS) Data Release 2 (DR2) catalogue. This source, with \textit{RM}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Samantha Sneha Paul , Abhik Ghosh