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Publications (10)

astro-ph.IM2020

Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 1: analysis and results

A. Bonaldi, T. An, M. Bruggen +42

As the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will lead the next generation of radio astronomy. The feats of engineering required to construct the t…

astro-ph.IM2025

Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment

A. Bonaldi, P. Hartley, R. Braun +179

We present and analyse the results of the Science data challenge 3a (SDC3a, https://sdc3.skao.int/challenges/foregrounds), an EoR foreground-removal community-wide exercise organis…

astro-ph.GA2020

VLA and ALMA observations of the lensed radio-quiet quasar SDSS J0924+0219: a molecular structure in a 3 microJy radio source

S. Badole, N. Jackson, P. Hartley +3

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) observations of SDSS J0924+0219, a z = 1.524 radio-quiet lensed quasar with an intrinsic…

astro-ph.IM2023

SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

P. Hartley, A. Bonaldi, R. Braun +105

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomer…

astro-ph.GA2021

PS J1721+8842: A gravitationally lensed dual AGN system at redshift 2.37 with two radio components

C. S. Mangat, J. P. McKean, R. Brilenkov +4

Dual-Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are a natural consequence of the hierarchical structure formation scenario, and can provide an important test of various models for black hole gro…

astro-ph.GA2021

Using strong lensing to understand the microJy radio emission in two radio quiet quasars at redshift 1.7

P. Hartley, N. Jackson, S. Badole +3

The radio quasar luminosity function exhibits an upturn around W Hz that is well-modelled by a star-forming host galaxy population. This distribution…

astro-ph.GA2019

Strong lensing reveals jets in a sub-microJy radio quiet quasar

P. Hartley, N. Jackson, D. Sluse +2

We present e-MERLIN and EVN observations which reveal unambiguous jet activity within radio quiet quasar HS~0810+2554. With an intrinsic flux density of 880~nJy, this is the fainte…

astro-ph.IM2014

A PCA-based automated finder for galaxy-scale strong lenses

R. Joseph, F. Courbin, R. B. Metcalf +11

We present an algorithm using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to subtract galaxies from imaging data, and also two algorithms to find strong, galaxy-scale gravitational lenses i…

astro-ph.GA2021

Gravitational lensing in LoTSS DR2 -- Extremely faint 144-MHz radio emission from two highly magnified quasars

J. P. McKean, R. Luichies, A. Drabent +8

We report extremely faint 144 MHz radio emission from two gravitationally lensed quasars, SDSS J1004+4112 (z = 1.730) and SDSS J2222+2745 (z = 2.803), using the LOFAR Two Metre Sky…

astro-ph.IM2017

Support Vector Machine classification of strong gravitational lenses

P. Hartley, R. Flamary, N. Jackson +2

The imminent advent of very large-scale optical sky surveys, such as Euclid and LSST, makes it important to find efficient ways of discovering rare objects such as strong gravitati…