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The INTEGRAL observatory has discovered a variety of hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane since its launch. Using GMRT, we have made repeated observations of these sources to search for the radio counterparts of seventeen of them at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pandey , R. K. Manchanda , A. P. Rao , P. Durouchoux , Ishwara-Chandra

We report the discovery of 164 compact (radius < 1 arcmin) radio rings using MeerKAT 1.3 GHz data from the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (l=2-60deg, 252-358deg, |b|<1.5deg) and the Galactic Centre mosaic, from a search aimed at…

The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by the emission arising from blazars, one of the most peculiar classes of radio-loud active galaxies. Since the launch of Fermi several methods were developed to search for blazars as potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Ricci , F. Massaro , M. Landoni , R. D'Abrusco , D. Milisavljevic , D. Stern , N. Masetti , A. Paggi , Howard A. Smith , G. Tosti

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and supermassive black holes. Using multi-epoch Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Yang , Yongjun Chen , Leonid I. Gurvits , Zsolt Paragi , Aiyuan Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Zhiqiang Shen

GHz-peaked spectrum (GPS) radio sources are thought to be young objects which later evolve into FR-I and FR-II radio galaxies. We have used the Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) survey catalogue to select a uniform sample of GPS sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul J. Hancock , Steven J. Tingay , Elaine M. Sadler , Chris Phillips , Adam T. Deller

We present a search for gravitational arcs in a sample of X-ray luminous, medium redshift clusters of galaxies. The sample of clusters is called ARCRAIDER, is based on the ROSAT Bright Survey (RBS) and fulfills the following criteria: (a)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 W. Kausch , S. Schindler , T. Erben , J. Wambsganss , A. Schwope

Context: To investigate the joint evolution of active galactic nuclei and star formation in the Universe. Aims: In the 1.4 GHz survey with the Australia Telescope Compact Array of the Chandra Deep Field South and the European Large Area ISO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Middelberg , R. P. Norris , S. Tingay , M. Y. Mao , C. J. Phillips , A. W. Hotan

We study the radio properties of moderately obscured quasars over a range of redshifts to understand the role of radio activity in accretion using the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) at 6.0GHz and 1.4GHz. Our z~2.5 sample consists of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Rachael M. Alexandroff , Nadia L. Zakamska , Sjoert van Velzen , Jenny E. Greene , Michael A. Strauss

In extending our spectroscopic program, which targets sources drawn from the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) Catalog, we have obtained spectra for about 160 compact flat-spectrum radio sources and determined redshifts for 112…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 O. Titov , T. Pursimo , H. M. Johnston , L. M. Stanford , R. W. Hunstead , D. L. Jauncey , K. A. Zenere

Utilizing the latest and the most sensitive radio and optical catalogs, we completed a new blazar candidate catalog, Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS), which includes 88,211 sources located at declination $\delta > -40^{\circ}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-04 Ryosuke Itoh , Yousuke Utsumi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Kouji Ohta , Akihiro Doi , Tomoki Morokuma , Koji S. Kawabata , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka

We describe further results of a program aimed to yield ~10^4 fully characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), and both optical imaging and…

We present the Galactic Radio Explorer (GReX), an all-sky monitor to probe the brightest bursts in the radio sky. Building on the success of STARE2, we will search for fast radio bursts (FRBs) emitted from Galactic magnetars as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Liam Connor , Kiran A. Shila , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Jonas Flygare , Gregg Hallinan , Dongzi Li , Wenbin Lu , Vikram Ravi , Sander Weinreb

Ultra-steep spectrum (USS) radio sources are good tracers of powerful radio galaxies at $z > 2$. Identification of even a single bright radio galaxy at $z > 6$ can be used to detect redshifted 21cm absorption due to neutral hydrogen in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 A. Saxena , P. Jagannathan , H. J. A. Röttgering , P. N. Best , H. T. Intema , M. Zhang , K. J. Duncan , C. L. Carilli , G. K. Miley

Using survey data, we have re-evaluated the correlation of flat spectrum radio sources with EGRET sources in the Northern sky. A likelihood analysis incorporating the radio and X-ray properties and the Gamma-ray source localization is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Sowards-Emmerd , Roger W. Romani , Peter F. Michelson

We present deep radio images at 1.4 GHz of a large and complete sample of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) selected from the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS). We have observed 24 northern sources with the Very Large Array (VLA) in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hermine Landt , Hayley E. Bignall

We investigated the archival ground-based VLBI images of the extragalactic radio sources included in both the {\it Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)} and the {\it Planck} catalogues, and selected 49 bright and compact sources as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Tao An , Xiaocong Wu , Sandor Frey

The optical identification of large number of X-ray sources such as those from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey is challenging with conventional spectroscopic follow-up observations. We investigate two ROSAT All-Sky Survey fields of size 10 * 10…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 J. Greiner , G. A. Richter

Many low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) contain a compact radio core which can be observed with high angular resolution using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Combining arcsec-scale structural information with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-06 Máté Krezinger , Sándor Frey , Zsolt Paragi , Roger Deane

The results of optical identifications of five hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane region from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey are presented. The X-ray data on one source (IGRJ20216+4359) are published for the first time. The optical…

We present new millimetre 43 GHz observations of a sample of radio-bright Planetary Nebulae. Such observations were carried out to have a good determination of the high-frequency radio spectra of the sample in order to evaluate, together…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Umana , P. Leto , C. Trigilio , C. S. Buemi , P. Manzitto , S. Toscano , S. Dolei , L. Cerrigone