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Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) are unexpected faint circles of diffuse radio emission discovered in recent wide deep radio surveys. They are typically about one arcmin in diameter, and may be spherical shells of synchrotron emission about a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Ray P. Norris , Evan Crawford , Peter Macgregor

Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) are a new class of distinct radio objects that has recently been discovered. The origin of these features is yet unclear because their peculiar properties are a challenge for our current understanding of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Anna Ivleva , Ludwig M. Böss , Klaus Dolag , Bärbel S. Koribalski , Ildar Khabibullin

We investigate shock structures driven by merger events in high-resolution simulations that result in a galaxy with a virial mass M ~ 1e12 Msol. We find that the sizes and morphologies of the internal shocks resemble remarkably well those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Klaus Dolag , Ludwig M. Böss , Bärbel S. Koribalski , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini

Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) are a class of low surface brightness, circular objects approximately one arcminute in diameter. ORCs were recently discovered in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) data, and subsequently…

A measurable fraction ($\sim8$ per cent) of recently discovered arcmin-size circular diffuse radio sources termed as Odd Radio Circles or ORCs can be supernovae remnants in the intragroup medium, within the local group and its immediate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-12 A. Omar

A new class of radio source, the so-called Odd Radio Circles (ORCs), have been discovered by recent sensitive, large-area radio continuum surveys. The distances of these sources have so far relied on photometric redshifts of optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-11 David Rupke , Alison Coil , Kelly Whalen , John Moustakas , Christy Tremonti , Serena Perrotta

Odd radio circles (ORCs) are mysterious rings of faint, diffuse emission recently discovered in radio surveys, some of which may be associated with galaxies in relatively dense environments. We propose such ORCs to be synchrotron emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Yutaka Fujita , Norita Kawanaka , Susumu Inoue

The physical nature and origins of the newly discovered class of Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) remain unclear. We investigate a model whereby ORCs are synchrotron-emitting vortex rings formed by the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) when a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Yiting Wang , Sebastian Heinz

The origin of arcmin-sized Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) found in modern all-sky radio surveys remain uncertain, with explanations ranging from starburst/AGN-driven shocks to supernova remnants (SNRs) in the low-density ambient medium. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-23 Sumit K. Sarbadhicary , Todd A. Thompson , Laura A. Lopez , Smita Mathur

Odd Radio Circles or ORCs are recently discovered edge-brightened, low surface brightness circular radio sources. The progenitors and astrophysical processes responsible for their origins are presently debated. Some ORCs are host-less and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Omar

A new class of extragalactic astronomical sources discovered in 2021, named Odd Radio Circles (ORCs, Norris et al. 2021), are large rings of faint, diffuse radio continuum emission spanning ~1 arcminute on the sky. Galaxies at the centers…

Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) are a new class of extragalactic object, with large rings of faint radio continuum emission typically spanning 100s of kpc; their origins are unknown. Previous optical spectroscopy of the central galaxy in ORC4, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Alison L. Coil , David S. N. Rupke , Serena Perrotta , Saloni Agrawal , Cassandra Lochhaas

Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) are recently-discovered faint diffuse circles of radio emission, of unknown cause, surrounding galaxies at moderate redshift ($z ~ 0.2-0.6). Here we present detailed new MeerKAT radio images at 1284 MHz of the first…

We have mapped 16 edge-on galaxies at 20 cm using the VLA. For 5 galaxies, we could form spectral index, energy and magnetic field maps. We find that all but one galaxy show evidence for non-thermal high latitude radio continuum emission,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Judith A. Irwin , Jayanne English , Barkat Sorathia

A joint hadronic model is shown to quantitatively explain the observations of diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters in the form of minihalos, giant halos, relics, and their hybrid, transitional stages. Cosmic-ray diffusion of order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Uri Keshet

Odd radio circles (ORCs) are a newly discovered class of extended faint radio sources of unknown origin. We report the first detection of diffuse X-ray gas at the location of a low-redshift ORC (z=0.046) known as Cloverleaf ORC. This…

The Odd Radio Circles are newly identified diffuse radio sources at ~1 GHz frequency, with edge-brightened nearly circular morphology, which is remarkably similar to supernova remnants although a physical association with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-20 Amitesh Omar

In addition to the radio continuum emission of the thin galactic disk, vertically extended emission is ubiquitous in starforming disk galaxies. This halo emission can represent an important fraction of the total emission of the galaxy The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 B. Vollmer , M. Soida , V. Heesen

Odd radio circles (ORCs) are newly discovered extragalactic radio objects with unknown origin. In this work, we carry out three-dimensional cosmic-ray (CR) magnetohydrodynamic simulations using the FLASH code and predict the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Yen-Hsing Lin , H. -Y. Karen Yang

We present a systematic search for Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) and other unusual radio morphologies using data from the first year of the EMU (Evolutionary Map of the Universe) survey. ORCs are rare, enigmatic objects characterized by…

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