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We have conducted a deep survey (with a central rms of $55\mu\textrm{Jy}$) with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) at 120-168 MHz of the Bo\"otes field, with an angular resolution of $3.98^{''}\times6.45^{''}$, and obtained a sample of 10091…

Red quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are a subset of the luminous end of the cosmic population of active galactic nuclei (AGN), most of which are reddened by intervening dust along the line-of-sight towards their central engines. In recent work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 D. J. Rosario , V. A. Fawcett , L. Klindt , D. M. Alexander , L. K. Morabito , S. Fotopoulou , E. Lusso , G. Calistro Rivera

Some Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) host outflows which have the potential to alter the host galaxy's evolution (AGN feedback). These outflows have been linked to enhanced radio emission. Here we investigate the connection between…

We present the astrometric identification of 80 known radio pulsars as unresolved continuum sources detected at 144 MHz in the second data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS DR2), which covers 27% of the Northern hemisphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 G. A. C. Rijkers , C. G. Bassa , J. R. Callingham , T. Shimwell

We present the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS), the first northern-sky LOFAR imaging survey. In this introductory paper, we first describe in detail the motivation and design of the survey. Compared to previous radio surveys, MSSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 G. H. Heald , R. F. Pizzo , E. Orrú , R. P. Breton , D. Carbone , C. Ferrari , M. J. Hardcastle , W. Jurusik , G. Macario , D. Mulcahy , D. Rafferty , A. Asgekar , M. Brentjens , R. A. Fallows , W. Frieswijk , M. C. Toribio , B. Adebahr , M. Arts , M. R. Bell , A. Bonafede , J. Bray , J. Broderick , T. Cantwell , P. Carroll , Y. Cendes , A. O. Clarke , J. Croston , S. Daiboo , F. de Gasperin , J. Gregson , J. Harwood , T. Hassall , V. Heesen , A. Horneffer , A. J. van der Horst , M. Iacobelli , V. Jelić , D. Jones , D. Kant , G. Kokotanekov , P. Martin , J. P. McKean , L. K. Morabito , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , A. Offringa , V. N. Pandey , M. Pandey-Pommier , M. Pietka , L. Pratley , C. Riseley , A. Rowlinson , J. Sabater , A. M. M. Scaife , L. H. A. Scheers , K. Sendlinger , A. Shulevski , M. Sipior , C. Sobey , A. J. Stewart , A. Stroe , J. Swinbank , C. Tasse , J. Trüstedt , E. Varenius , S. van Velzen , N. Vilchez , R. J. van Weeren , S. Wijnholds , W. L. Williams , A. G. de Bruyn , R. Nijboer , M. Wise , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , I. M. Avruch , R. Beck , M. E. Bell , I. van Bemmel , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , F. Breitling , W. N. Brouw , M. Brüggen , H. R. Butcher , B. Ciardi , J. E. Conway , E. de Geus , A. de Jong , M. de Vos , A. Deller , R. J. Dettmar , S. Duscha , J. Eislöffel , D. Engels , H. Falcke , R. Fender , M. A. Garrett , J. Grießmeier , A. W. Gunst , J. P. Hamaker , J. W. T. Hessels , M. Hoeft , J. Hörandel , H. A. Holties , H. Intema , N. J. Jackson , E. Jütte , A. Karastergiou , W. F. A. Klijn , V. I. Kondratiev , L. V. E. Koopmans , M. Kuniyoshi , G. Kuper , C. Law , J. van Leeuwen , M. Loose , P. Maat , S. Markoff , R. McFadden , D. McKay-Bukowski , M. Mevius , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , R. Morganti , H. Munk , A. Nelles , J. E. Noordam , M. J. Norden , H. Paas , A. G. Polatidis , W. Reich , A. Renting , H. Röttgering , A. Schoenmakers , D. Schwarz , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , B. W. Stappers , M. Steinmetz , M. Tagger , Y. Tang , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , R. A. M. J. Wijers , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka

We demonstrate the use of Haralick features for the automated classification of radio galaxies. The set of thirteen Haralick features represent an extremely compact non-parametric representation of image texture, and are calculated directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Kushatha Ntwaetsile , James E. Geach

We present a new analysis of the widely used relation between cavity power and radio luminosity in clusters of galaxies with evidence for strong AGN feedback. We study the correlation at low radio frequencies using two new surveys - the…

We present a novel machine learning based approach for detecting galaxy-scale gravitational lenses from interferometric data, specifically those taken with the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), which is observing the northern radio sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 S. Rezaei , J. P. McKean , M. Biehl , W. de Roo1 , A. Lafontaine

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

With the advent of new generation low-frequency telescopes, such as the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), and improved calibration techniques, we have now started to unveil the sub GHz radio sky with unprecedented depth and sensitivity. The…

Extended radio sources in the sky require a dense sampling of short baselines to be properly imaged by interferometers. This problem arises in many areas of radio astronomy, such as in the study of galaxy clusters, which may host Mpc-scale…

We carry out a shape and weak lensing analysis of Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio sources and Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) optical sources within the European Large Area Infrared Space Observatory Survey-North 1 (ELAIS-N1) field. Using HSC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Jinyi Liu , Reinout van Weeren , Huub Rottgering , Konrad Kuijken

Radio continuum emission has the potential to be an extinction-free tracer of star formation. However, the relation between radio continuum luminosity and star formation rate, the radio-SFR relation, is affected by various effects such as…

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly useful in astronomical applications over the last few years, for example in the morphological classification of galaxies. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , J. K. Banfield , O. I. Wong , L. Rudnick , R. P. Norris , B. Simmons

Finding and classifying astronomical sources is key in the scientific exploitation of radio surveys. Source-finding usually involves identifying the parts of an image belonging to an astronomical source, against some estimated background.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-20 V. Lukic , F. De Gasperin , M. Brüggen

Large-scale sky surveys at low frequencies, like the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), allow for the detection and characterisation of unprecedented numbers of giant radio galaxies (GRGs, or 'giants'). In this work, by automating the…

The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array Low…

A sample of 2712 radio-luminous galaxies is defined from the second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by cross-comparing the main spectroscopic galaxy sample with two radio surveys: the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. N. Best , G. Kauffmann , T. M. Heckman , Z. Ivezic

We present the Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS), a spectroscopic catalogue of radio sources designed to include the full range of radio AGN populations out to redshift z = 0.8. The catalogue covers roughly…

Low radio frequency surveys are important for testing unified models of radio-loud quasars and radio galaxies. Intrinsically similar sources that are randomly oriented on the sky will have different projected linear sizes. Measuring the…