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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

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 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

Recently, a new population of circular radio ($\sim$GHz) objects have been discovered at high Galactic latitudes, called the Odd Radio Circles (ORCs). A fraction of the ORCs encircles massive galaxies in the sky with stellar mass $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Shotaro Yamasaki , Kartick C. Sarkar , Zhaozhou Li

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 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

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

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 (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

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

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 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…

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

Deep radio surveys are now producing catalogs with millions of radio sources. Radio sources can have complex morphologies that depend on both the production mechanisms and the local environment. Recently, an unusual class of circular radio…

New observations with the current generation of advanced radio interferometers, such as ASKAP and MeerKAT, have led to the discovery of new classes of extended radio sources of unknown origin, including the so-called Odd Radio Circles…

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…

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…

We present three rare and striking extragalactic radio sources discovered through visual inspection of low-frequency continuum maps from LoTSS DR2 and TGSS by the RAD@home citizen-science collaboratory. The first, RAD J131346.9+500320, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Ananda Hota , Pratik Dabhade , Prasun Machado , Joydeep Das , Aarti Muley , Arundhati Purohit

We report from a study utilizing 3D MHD simulations, including cosmic-ray electrons, of the interactions between radio galaxies (RGs) and dynamically active ICMs. Here we consider interactions involving plane ICM shocks having Mach numbers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Chris Nolting , T. W. Jones , Brian O'Neill , P. J. Mendygral
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