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most citedThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release

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astro-ph.GA2026★ 17 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: VII. Third Data Release

T. W. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle, C. Tasse +99

We present the third data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR3). The survey images cover 88% of the northern sky and were created from 12,950 hrs of data (18.6 PB)…

astro-ph.IM2024

Identification of multi-component LOFAR sources with multi-modal deep learning

Lara Alegre, Philip Best, Jose Sabater +3

Modern high-sensitivity radio telescopes are discovering an increased number of resolved sources with intricate radio structures and fainter radio emissions. These sources often pr…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 28 cited

Constraining the giant radio galaxy population with machine learning and Bayesian inference

Rafaël I. J. Mostert, Martijn S. S. L. Oei, B. Barkus +6

Large-scale sky surveys at low frequencies, like the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), allow for the detection and characterisation of unprecedented numbers of giant radio galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 69 cited

The LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS): VI. Optical identifications for the second data release

M. J. Hardcastle, M. A. Horton, W. L. Williams +49

The second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) covers 27% of the northern sky, with a total area of deg. The high angular resolution of LOFAR wi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Finding AGN remnant candidates based on radio morphology with machine learning

Rafael I. J. Mostert, Raffaella Morganti, Marisa Brienza +6

Remnant radio galaxies represent the dying phase of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). Large samples of remnant radio galaxies are important for quantifying the radio galaxy…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 22 cited

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.IM2022★ 14 cited

Radio source-component association for the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey with region-based convolutional neural networks

Rafaël I. J. Mostert, Kenneth J. Duncan, Lara Alegre +5

Radio loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGNs) are often morphologically complex objects that can consist of multiple, spatially separated, components. Astronomers often rely on visual…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

A machine learning classifier for LOFAR radio galaxy cross-matching techniques

Lara Alegre, Jose Sabater, Philip Best +7

New-generation radio telescopes like LOFAR are conducting extensive sky surveys, detecting millions of sources. To maximise the scientific value of these surveys, radio source comp…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 489 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey -- V. Second data release

T. W. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle, C. Tasse +103

In this data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) we present 120-168MHz images covering 27% of the northern sky. Our coverage is split into two regions centred at ap…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 80 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey IV. First Data Release: Photometric redshifts and rest-frame magnitudes

Kenneth J Duncan, J. Sabater, H. J. A. Röttgering +24

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey of the Northern sky. The LoTSS First Data Release (DR1) presents 424 square degrees of rad…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 167 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) III. First Data Release: optical/IR identifications and value-added catalogue

W. L. Williams, M. J. Hardcastle, P. N. Best +38

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey of the Northern sky with diverse and ambitious science goals. Many of the scienti…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 586 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release

T. W. Shimwell, C. Tasse, M. J. Hardcastle +104

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168MHz survey of the entire northern sky for which observations are now 20% complete. We present…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 91 cited

The nature of luminous Lyman-alpha emitters at z~2-3: maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionising AGN

David Sobral, Jorryt Matthee, Behnam Darvish +8

Deep narrow-band surveys have revealed a large population of faint Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitters (LAEs) in the distant Universe, but relatively little is known about the most luminous…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 60 cited

On the nature and physical conditions of the luminous Lya emitter CR7 and its rest-frame UV components

David Sobral, Jorryt Matthee, Gabriel Brammer +6

We present new HST/WFC3 observations and re-analyse VLT data to unveil the continuum, variability and rest-frame UV lines of the multiple UV clumps of the most luminous Ly emitt…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 83 cited

Spectroscopic properties of luminous Lyman-α emitters at and comparison to the Lyman-break population

Jorryt Matthee, David Sobral, Behnam Darvish +5

We present spectroscopic follow-up of candidate luminous Ly emitters (LAEs) at in the SA22 field with VLT/X-SHOOTER. We confirm two new luminous LAEs at (S…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 45 cited

A large H survey of star formation in relaxed and merging galaxy cluster environments at

Andra Stroe, David Sobral, Ana Afonso +4

We present the first results from the largest H survey of star formation and AGN activity in galaxy clusters. Using 9 different narrow band filters, we select H emitt…