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The shape of bent, double-lobed radio sources requires a dense gaseous medium. Bent sources can therefore be used to identify galaxy clusters and characterize their evolutionary history. By combining radio observations from the Very Large…

We apply a cross-correlation technique to infer the $S>3$mJy radio luminosity function (RLF) from the NRAO VLA sky survey (NVSS) to $z\sim3.5$. We measure $\Sigma$ the over density of radio sources around spectroscopically confirmed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 S. Fine , T. Shanks , R. Johnston , M. J. Jarvis , T. Mauch

A new sample of radio sources, with the designated name CENSORS (A Combined EIS-NVSS Survey Of Radio Sources), has been defined by combining the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) at 1.4 GHz with the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) Patch D, a 3 by 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. N. Best , J. N. Arts , H. J. A. Rottgering , R. Rengelink , M. H. Brookes , J. Wall

A small number of double-lobed radio galaxies (17 from our own census of the literature) show an additional pair of low surface brightness `wings', thus forming an overall `X'-shaped appearance. The origin of the wings in these radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. C. Cheung

VLA 1.4 GHz (rms noise ~0.012 mJy) and MIPS 24 and 70 micron (rms noise ~0.02 and ~1.7 mJy, respectively) observations covering the 2 square degree COSMOS field are combined with an extensive multi-wavelength data set to study the evolution…

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) catalogs, we examined the optical environments around double-lobed radio sources. Previous studies have shown that multi-component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Joshua D. Wing , Elizabeth L. Blanton

We calculate the expected number of strongly lensed radio sources in a sample of 6500 sources observed with the Very Large Array as part of the Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey (CLASS) during the first two sessions of its observations. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Asantha R. Cooray

We examine the sky distribution of radio galaxies in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). Analyses of these samples have reported tension between their inferred dipoles and the kinematic dipole of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Oliver T. Oayda , Vasudev Mittal , Geraint F. Lewis , Tara Murphy

Using radio sources from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey, and optical counterparts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we have identified a large number of galaxy clusters. The radio sources within these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-03 Joshua D. Wing , Elizabeth L. Blanton

The VLA-COSMOS large project is described and its scientific objective is discussed. We present a catalog of ~ 3,600 radio sources found in the 2deg^2 COSMOS field at 1.4 GHz. The observations in the VLA A and C configuration resulted in a…

Unified schemes of radio sources, which account for different types of radio AGN in terms of anisotropic radio and optical emission, together with different orientations of the ejection axis to the line of sight, have been invoked for many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Neal Jackson , I. W. A. Browne

Current wide-area radio surveys are dominated by active galactic nuclei, yet many of these sources have no identified optical counterparts. Here we investigate whether one can constrain the nature and properties of these sources, using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Heino Falcke , Elmar Koerding

Radio observations of strongly lensed objects are valuable as cosmological probes. Lensed radio sources have proven difficult to identify in large part due to the limited depth and angular resolution of the previous generation of radio sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-07 Michael N. Martinez , Yjan A. Gordon , Keith Bechtol , Gillian Cartwright , Peter S. Ferguson , Miranda Gorsuch

We review observational tests for the homogeneity of the Universe on large scales. Redshift and peculiar velocity surveys, radio sources, the X-Ray Background, the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and the Cosmic Microwave Background are used to set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

Recently, two classes of quasar samples were identified, which are promising as new cosmological probes extending to higher redshifts. The first sample uses the nonlinear relation between the ultraviolet and X-ray luminosities of quasars to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-15 Xiaogang Zheng , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Xiaolei Li , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu

Little is known about the statistics of gravitationally lensed quasars at large (7''-30'') image separations, which probe masses on the scale of galaxy clusters. We have carried out a survey for gravitationally-lensed objects, among sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. O. Ofek , D. Maoz , F. Prada , T. Kolatt , H. -W. Rix

A 2.29 GHz VLBI all-sky survey of ultra-compact radio sources has formed the basis of a number of cosmological investigations, which examine the relationship between angular-size and redshift. Here I use a sample of 468 such sources with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-12 J. C. Jackson

We measure the angular two-point correlation and angular power spectrum from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) of radio galaxies. They are found to be consistent with the best-fit cosmological model from the Planck analysis, and with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Song Chen , Dominik J. Schwarz

(abridged) We study the composition of the faint radio population selected from the VLA-COSMOS 3GHz Large Project. The survey covers a 2.6sq.deg. area with a mean rms of ~2.3uJy/b, cataloging 10830 sources (>5sigma). Combining these radio…

As part of the GLOSTAR survey we have used the VLA in its B-configuration to observe the part of the Galactic plane between longitudes of 28d and 36d and latitudes from -1d to +1d at the C-band (4--8 GHz). To reduce the contamination of…