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Extragalactic jets exhibit a wide range of propagation orientations relative to the host galaxy's principal axis. This study investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of jets as a function of their propagation direction within their triaxial…

X-ray emission traces the gaseous environments of radio sources. The medium must be present for jet confinement, but what are its influence on jet fuelling, dynamics, propagation, and disruption? The observational situation is both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Worrall

We present results from a study of X-shaped sources based on observations using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). These observations were motivated by our low frequency study of 3C 223.1 (Lal & Rao 2005), an X-shaped radio source,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dharam Vir Lal , A. Pramesh Rao

The nature of X-shaped sources is a matter of considerable debate: it has even been proposed that they provide evidence for black hole mergers$ / $spin reorientation, and therefore constrain the rate of strong gravitational wave events…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 D. V. Lal , M. J. Hardcastle , R. P. Kraft , C. C. Cheung , A. P. Lobanov , J. A. Zensus , S. Bhatnagar , A. P. Rao

We conducted an extensive identification and analysis of various morphological classes and subclasses of radio galaxies using the latest high-resolution data from the second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS DR2). This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Soumen Kumar Bera , Taotao Fang , Tapan K. Sasmal , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , Xuelei Chen , Soumen Mondal

We analyze the properties of a sample of X-shaped radio-sources (XRSs). These objects show, in addition to the main lobes, a pair of wings producing their peculiar radio morphology. We obtain our sample by selecting from the initial list of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 Melissa Gillone , Alessandro Capetti , Paola Rossi

A comparison of the recent LOFAR 144 MHz map of the radio source 3C 223.1 (J094124.028+394441.95) with the VLA maps at 4.9 GHz and 8.3 GHz that we built based on archival data, establishes this X-shaped radio galaxy (XRG) as a singularly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Gopal-Krishna , Pratik Dabhade

We studied bent radio sources within X-ray galaxy groups in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields, using radio data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Explorations data release 1 (MIGHTEE-DR1) at 1.2-1.3 GHz (angular…

We present a catalog of 290 "winged" or X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs) extracted from the latest (2014 December 17) data release of the "Very Large Array Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeter." We have combined these radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-23 Xiaolong Yang , Ravi Joshi , Gopal-Krishna , Tao An , Luis C. Ho , Paul J. Wiita , Xiang Liu , Jun Yang , Ran Wang , Xuebing Wu , Xiaofeng Yang

We examine relationships between the morphology in double radio sources and the radio-optical position angle offset--the relative orientation of the radio axis with respect to the major axis of the host galaxy. The study was done for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lakshmi Saripalli , Ravi Subrahmanyan

We have carried out two-dimensional, axisymmetric, hydrodynamic numerical modelling of the evolution of radio galaxy lobes. The emphasis of our work is on including realistic hot-gas environments in the simulations and on establishing what…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Hardcastle , M. G. H. Krause

X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs) are characterised by two pairs of misaligned lobes, namely the active lobes hosting radio jets and the wings. None of the formation mechanisms proposed so far can exhaustively reproduce the diverse features…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-09 L. Bruno , M. Brienza , A. Zanichelli , M. Gitti , F. Ubertosi , K. Rajpurohit , T. Venturi , D. Dallacasa

We present four Mpc-sized radio galaxies which consist of a pair of double-lobed radio sources, aligned along the same axis, and with a coinciding radio core. We have called these peculiar radio sources `double-double' radio galaxies (DDRG)…

Relativistic and magnetised plasma ejected by radio loud AGNs through jets form the diffuse lobes of radio galaxies. The radiating particles (electron/electron-positron) in lobes emit in radio via the synchrotron process and X-ray via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 C. Konar , M. Jamrozy , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , S. Nandi , D. J. Saikia , J. Machalski

I summarize Xray properties of high redshift radio galaxies, beginning with a brief review of what has been learned from Xray observations of low redshift powerful radio galaxies (in particular, Cygnus A), and then turning to Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. L. Carilli

Some X-shaped radio galaxies show a Z-symmetric morphology in the less luminous secondary lobes. Within the scenario of a merger between two galaxies, each hosting a supermassive black hole in its center, this structure has been explained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Zier

Double-double radio galaxies (DDRGs) offer a unique opportunity for us to study multiple episodes of jet activity in large-scale radio sources. We use radio data from the Very Large Array and the literature to model two DDRGs, B1450+333 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Catherine Brocksopp , Christian Kaiser , Arno Schoenmakers , Ger de Bruyn

We present the results of new XMM observations of FR-I and FR-II radio galaxies that show the importance of jet/environment interactions for both radio-source structure and the properties of the surrounding gas. The FR-I observations reveal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Croston , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Birkinshaw , D. M. Worrall

Giant radio sources, including galaxies and quasars (hereafter GRGs), are active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosting relativistic jets with source sizes exceeding the projected length of 0.7 Mpc. They are crucial to understanding the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , Gabriele Bruni , Alberto Dominguez , C. S. Stalin

We present a low-frequency imaging study of an extended sample of X-shaped radio sources using the Giant Metrewave radio telescope (GMRT) at two frequencies (610 and 240 MHz). The sources were drawn from a Very Large Array FIRST-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Dharam V. Lal , Biny Sebastian , C. C. Cheung , A. Pramesh Rao