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We have scanned the fields of six radio-loud quasars using the Taurus Tunable Filter to detect redshifted [OII] 3727 line-emitting galaxies at redshifts 0.8 < z < 1.3. Forty-seven new emission-line galaxy (ELG) candidates are found. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Barr , J. C. Baker , M. N. Bremer , R. W. Hunstead , J. Bland-Hawthorn

The population of high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) is still poorly studied because only a few of these objects are currently known. We here present the results of a pilot project of spectroscopic identification of HzRG candidates. The…

The remnant phase of a radio galaxy is characterized by the cessation of AGN activity resulting in the stoppage of jets supplying plasma to radio lobes. In this paper, we present the search and characterization of remnant candidates in 12.5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-24 Sushant Dutta , Veeresh Singh , C. H. Ishwara Chandra , Yogesh Wadadekar , Abhijit Kayal , Ian Heywood

We present a catalogue of 349 giant radio sources (GRSs including both galaxies and quasars). The database contains all giants known to date from the literature. These GRSs cover the redshift range of 0.016$<$z$<$3.22 and include radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 A. Kuźmicz , M. Jamrozy , K. Bronarska , K. Janda-Boczar , D. J. Saikia

We investigate the kinematic properties of a large (N=998) sample of COSMOS spectroscopic galaxy members distributed among 79 groups. We identify the Brightest Group Galaxies (BGGs) and cross-match our data with the VLA-COSMOS Deep survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 T. Pasini , A. Finoguenov , M. Brüggen , M. Gaspari , F. de Gasperin , G. Gozaliasl

We study the radio spectral properties of 2,094 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) by combining our early science data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey with VLA, GMRT radio data, and rich…

The {\it Fermi} satellite has detected $\sim$60 radio galaxies (RGs). In this study, we investigate the difference in the properties of X-ray spectra between GeV-loud RGs and GeV-quiet RGs. Our sample comprises 68 objects: 36 RGs detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Taishu Kayanoki , Yasushi Fukazawa

The advent of new generation radio telescopes is opening new possibilities on the classification and study of extragalactic high-energy sources, specially the underrepresented ones like radio galaxies. Among these, Giant Radio Galaxies…

We present deep polarimetric observations of the European Large Area ISO Survey-North 1 (ELAIS-N1) field using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) at 114.9-177.4 MHz. The ELAIS-N1 field is part of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey deep fields data…

Extragalactic radio sources with projected linear size larger than one Megaparsec 1 Mpc = 3.09e22 m = 3.3e6 light years) are called Giant Radio Galaxies (GRGs) or quasars (GRQs). Over the past few years our search for such objects by visual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Jonatan Rentería Macario , Heinz Andernach

We present the results of a search for megaparsec-scale sources in the NVGRC catalog of candidates of giant radio source (GRS) based on the NVSS sky survey. We visually inspected 370 NVGRC sources, as well as radio sources falling within a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Olga Zhelenkova , Milena Khoruzhenko

The faint radio-source population includes sources dominated both by star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN), encoding the evolution of activity in the Universe. To investigate its nature, we probabilistically classified 4,471 radio…

We construct a sample of 3,516 radio-loud host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST). These have 1.4 GHz luminosities in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-17 Elizabeth J. A. Mannering , Diana M. Worrall , Mark Birkinshaw

A fraction of galaxy clusters harbor diffuse radio sources known as radio halos. The currently adopted scenario for their formation is based on second-order Fermi re-acceleration of seed electrons that is driven by merger-driven turbulence…

We present the final 6'' resolution data release of the ELAIS-N1 field from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields project (LoTSS Deep). The 144MHz images are the most sensitive achieved to date at this frequency…

The interactions between radio-loud AGN and their environments play an important role in galaxy and cluster evolution. Recent work has demonstrated fundamental differences between High and Low Excitation Radio Galaxies (HERGs and LERGs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Judith Ineson , Judith H. Croston , Martin J. Hardcastle , Ralph P. Kraft , Daniel A. Evans , Matt J. Jarvis

We use the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Data Release I to identify the groups of galaxies (and individual galaxies) from the Hickson Compact Groups and Magnitude Limited Compact Groups samples that emit at the frequency of 150\,MHz,…

The most important evidence of non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters comes from Giant Radio Halos (GRHs), synchrotron radio sources extended over Mpc scales, detected in a growing number of massive galaxy clusters. A promising…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , G. Setti

This paper presents a study of the local radio source population, by cross-comparing the data from the first data release (DR1) of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 main galaxy spectroscopic…

Context. Radio halos are megaparsec-scale diffuse radio sources{ mostly} located at the centres of merging galaxy clusters. The common mechanism invoked to explain their origin is the re-acceleration of relativistic particles caused by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 G. Di Gennaro , R. J. van Weeren , R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , M. Brüggen , M. Hoeft , E. Osinga , A. Botteon , V. Cuciti , F. de Gasperin , H. J. A. Röttgering , C. Tasse