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astro-ph.CO2012★ 26 cited

Kinematics of the Compact Symmetric Object OQ 208 revisited

Fang Wu, Tao An, Willem A. Baan +6

Aims. A long timeline kinematic study of the archetypal CSO OQ 208 sheds light on the physical properties of the most compact radio sources. Methods. Archival data from the VLBA at…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 37 cited

The faint source population at 15.7 GHz - I. The radio properties

I. H. Whittam, J. M. Riley, D. A. Green +6

We have studied a sample of 296 faint (> 0.5 mJy) radio sources selected from an area of the Tenth Cambridge (10C) survey at 15.7 GHz in the Lockman Hole. By matching this catalogu…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 2 cited

Radio observations of Planck clusters

Ruta Kale

Recently, a number of new galaxy clusters have been detected by the ESA-Planck satellite, the South Pole Telescope and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich e…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 148 cited

Rise and Fall of Radio Halos in Simulated Merging Galaxy Clusters

Julius Donnert, Klaus Dolag, Gianfranco Brunetti +1

We present the first high resolution MHD simulation of cosmic-ray electron reacceleration by turbulence in cluster mergers. We use an idealised model for cluster mergers, combined…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 96 cited

Properties of gas clumps and gas clumping factor in the intra cluster medium

F. Vazza, D. Eckert, A. Simionescu +2

The spatial distribution of gas matter inside galaxy clusters is not completely smooth, but may host gas clumps associated with substructures. These overdense gas substructures are…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 273 cited

The Imprint of The Extragalactic Background Light in the Gamma-Ray Spectra of Blazars

LAT Collaboration

The light emitted by stars and accreting compact objects through the history of the Universe is encoded in the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Knowledge of t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 70 cited

Low frequency follow up of radio halos and relics in the GMRT Radio Halo Cluster Survey

Tiziana Venturi, Simona Giacintucci, Daniele Dallacasa +4

We performed GMRT low frequency observations of the radio halos, relics and new candidates belonging to the GMRT Radio Halo Cluster Sample first observed at 610 MHz. High sensitivi…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 101 cited

Radio Continuum Surveys with Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders

Ray P. Norris, J. Afonso, D. Bacon +48

In the lead-up to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, several next-generation radio telescopes and upgrades are already being built around the world. These include APERTIF (T…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 13 cited

Chandra observations of dying radio sources in galaxy clusters

M. Murgia, M. Markevitch, F. Govoni +4

The dying radio sources represent a very interesting and largely unexplored stage of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) evolution. They are considered to be very rare, and almost al…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 19 cited

Spectral Energy Distributions of low-luminosity radio galaxies at z~1-3: a high-z view of the host/AGN connection

Ranieri D. Baldi, Marco Chiaberge, Alessandro Capetti +3

We study the Spectral Energy Distributions, SEDs, (from FUV to MIR bands) of the first sizeable sample of 34 low-luminosity radio galaxies at high redshifts, selected in the COSMOS…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 43 cited

Thermal and non-thermal traces of AGN feedback: results from cosmological AMR simulations

F. Vazza, M. Brueggen, C. Gheller

We investigate the observable effects of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on non-thermal components of the intracluster medium (ICM). We have modelled feedback from AGN i…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 15 cited

The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) project: the spectrally-selected sample

Anna Bonaldi, Laura Bonavera, Marcella Massardi +1

The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) have provided multi-frequency (5-40 GHz) flux density measurements of complete samples of Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) radio sourc…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 77 cited

Radio Halos in future surveys in the radio continuum

R. Cassano, G. Brunetti, Ray P. Norris +3

Giant radio halos (RH) are Mpc-scale synchrotron sources detected in a significant fraction of massive and merging galaxy clusters.Their statistical properties can be used to discr…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 6 cited

Compact sources in the Bologna Complete Sample: high resolution VLA observations and optical data

E. Liuzzo, S. Buttiglione, G. Giovannini +3

Among radio galaxies, compact sources are a class of objects not yet well understood, and most of them cannot be included in classical populations of compact radio sources (flat sp…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 32 cited

Comparisons of Cosmological MHD Galaxy Cluster Simulations to Radio Observations

Hao Xu, Federica Govoni, Matteo Murgia +6

Radio observations of galaxy clusters show that there are G magnetic fields permeating the intra-cluster medium (ICM), but it is hard to accurately constrain the strength and st…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 33 cited

Extended soft X-ray emission in 3CR radio galaxies at z < 0.3: High Excitation and Broad Line Galaxies

B. Balmaverde, A. Capetti, P. Grandi +11

We analyze Chandra observations of diffuse soft X-ray emission associated with a complete sample of 3CR radio galaxies at z < 0.3. In this paper we focus on the properties of the s…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 4 cited

A 20 GHz bright sample for δ > +72°: I. Catalogue

S. Righini, E. Carretti, R. Ricci +9

During 2010-2011, the Medicina 32-m dish hosted the 7-feed 18-26.5 GHz receiver built for the Sardinia Radio Telescope, with the goal to perform its commissioning. This opportunity…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 52 cited

Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +208

About half of the baryons of the Universe are expected to be in the form of filaments of hot and low density intergalactic medium. Most of these baryons remain undetected even by t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 32 cited

Physical properties of the nuclear region in Seyfert galaxies derived from observations with the European VLBI Network

P. Bontempi, M. Giroletti, F. Panessa +2

We report on sensitive dual-frequency (1.7 and 5 GHz) European VLBI Network observations of the central region of nine Seyfert galaxies. These sources are among the faintest and le…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Planck intermediate results. VI: The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +200

The survey of galaxy clusters performed by Planck through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has already discovered many interesting objects, thanks to the whole coverage of the sky. One…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 244 cited

The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths

J. Delabrouille, M. Betoule, J. -B. Melin +39

We present the Planck Sky Model (PSM), a parametric model for the generation of all-sky, few arcminute resolution maps of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths, i…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 30 cited

Detection of diffuse radio emission in the galaxy clusters A800, A910, A1550, and CL1446+26

F. Govoni, C. Ferrari, L. Feretti +5

Radio halos are elusive sources located at the center of merging galaxy clusters. To date, only about 40 radio halos are known, thus the discovery of new halos provide important in…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 31 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): spectral classification through Principal Component Analysis

A. Marchetti, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo +51

We develop a Principal Component Analysis aimed at classifying a sub-set of 27,350 spectra of galaxies in the range 0.4 < z < 1.0 collected by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshi…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 158 cited

Discovery of radio halos and double-relics in distant MACS galaxy clusters: clues to the efficiency of particle acceleration

A. Bonafede, M Brueggen, R. van Weeren +6

We have performed 323 MHz observations with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope of the most promising candidates selected from the MACS catalog. The aim of the work is to extend ou…