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The detection of high energy (HE) {\gamma}-ray emission up to about 3 GeV from the giant lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A has been recently reported by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration based on ten months of all-sky survey observations. A…

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Using radio and X-ray data of two powerful radiogalaxies we attempt to find out the role that radio jets (in terms of composition and power) as well as intracluster magnetic fields play in the formation, propagation and acceleration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-05 Nectaria A. B Gizani

An observation of the West lobe of radio galaxy Fornax A (NGC 1316) with Suzaku is reported. Since Feigelson et al. (1995) and Kaneda et al. (1995) discovered the cosmic microwave background boosted inverse-Comptonized (IC) X-rays from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Makoto S. Tashiro , Naoki Isobe , Hiromi Seta , Keiko Matsuta , Yuichi Yaji

In this paper we present a detailed study of the giant radio halo in the galaxy cluster Abell 697, with the aim to constrain its origin and connection with the cluster dynamics. We performed high sensitivity GMRT observations at 325 MHz,…

Analysis of Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope low frequency data for an X-shaped source, 3C 223.1 has revealed an unusual result as discussed earlier by Lal & Rao (2004, MNRAS in press). The radio morphologies of it at 240 and 610 MHz show a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dharam Vir Lal , A. Pramesh Rao

We present high angular resolution X-ray images and spectra from two {\em Chandra} ACIS-I observations of the X-ray jet in the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A. We find that the X-ray emission from the jet is composed of a low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. P. Kraft , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , S. S. Murray , M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall

Context. Cygnus A, as the nearest powerful FR II radio galaxy, plays an important role in understanding jets and their impact on the surrounding intracluster medium. Aims. To explain why the nucleus is observed superposed onto the eastern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 K. C. Steenbrugge , K. M. Blundell , S. Pyrzas

We report new observations of Abell 2256 with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at frequencies between 1 and 8 GHz. These observations take advantage of the 2:1 bandwidths available for a single observation to study the spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Frazer Owen , Lawrence Rudnick , Jean Eilek , Urvashi Rau , Sanjay Bhatnagar , Leonid Kogan

We present new high-sensitivity e-MERLIN and VLA radio images of the prototypical Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 at 5, 10 and 21 GHz. We image the radio jet, from the compact components NE, C, S1 and S2 to the faint double-lobed jet structure of…

This paper presents new observations of the AGNs M87 and Hydra A at 90 GHz made with the MUSTANG bolometer array on the Green Bank Telescope at 8.5" resolution. A spectral analysis is performed combining this new data and archival VLA data…

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We have studied Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) polarimetric observations of 8 sources including quasars and BL Lacs at 12, 15, 22, 24 and 43 GHz and high frequency rotation measure ($RM$) maps are presented. We find typical values for the…

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The powerful FR II radio galaxy Cygnus A exhibits primary and secondary hotspots in each lobe. A 2 Msec Chandra X-ray image of Cygnus A has revealed an approximately circular hole, with a radius of 3.9 kpc, centered on the primary hotspot…

We have surveyed two large samples of nearby low-luminosity AGN with the VLA to search for flat-spectrum radio cores, similar to Sgr A* in the Galactic Center. Roughly one third of all galaxies are detected (roughly one half if HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Heino Falcke , Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson , Luis C. Ho , Jim S. Ulvestad

Multi-wavelength VLA observations of two extended radio galaxies, 0235-197 and 1203+043 are presented. There is some evidence from earlier studies that these two sources exhibit low frequency (<1 GHz) variability. This work shows that both…

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PKS B2152-699 has radio power characteristic of sources that dominate radio feedback. We present new deep ATCA, Chandra and optical observations, and test the feedback model. We report the first high-resolution observations of the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , A. J. Young , K. Momtahan , R. A. E. Fosbury , R. Morganti , C. N. Tadhunter , G. Verdoes Kleijn

A follow-up X-ray study was made of the west lobe of the radio galaxy Fornax A, (NGC 1316) based on new ASCA observations made in 1997 for 98 ks, and incorporating the previous observation in 1994 for 39 ks. The 0.7--10 keV spectrum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Tashiro , K. Makishima , N. Iyomoto , N. Isobe , H. Kaneda

In this paper, we present the analysis of new radio and optical observations of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 783. 1.6 GHz observations performed with the e-MERLIN interferometer confirm the presence of the diffuse emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 E. Congiu , P. Kharb , A. Tarchi , M. Berton , A. Caccianiga , S. Chen , L. Crepaldi , F. Di Mille , E. Järvelä , M. E. Jarvis , G. La Mura , A. Vietri

We investigated the relationship between the accretion process and jet properties by ultilizing the VLBA and mid-infrared (MIR) data for a sample of 45 3CRR radio galaxies selected with a flux density at 178 MHz $>16.4$ Jy, 5 GHz VLA core…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Ye Yuan , Minfeng Gu , Yongjun Chen

We present the compact radio structure of three radio-loud narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies from VLBA archive data at 2.3, 5 and 8.4 GHz. In RXS J16290+4007, the radio structure is mostly unresolved. The combination of compact radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Minfeng Gu , Yongjun Chen