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20122026
most citedRevival of the magnetar PSR J1622-4950: observations with MeerKAT, Parkes, XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR

161 citations · 1.4k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: III. Further host-galaxy identification, and redshift assessment

Sarah V. White, Precious K. Sejake, Kshitij Thorat +17

In this paper we present 127 new host-galaxy identifications for G4Jy sources (S_151MHz > 4 Jy), based on radio images from MeerKAT, the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS), and th…

astro-ph.GA2025

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: IV. Multiwavelength data and analysis

Sarah V. White, Precious K. Sejake, Kshitij Thorat +17

We provide an updated 'multiwavelength' version of the G4Jy catalogue (available at https://github.com/svw26/G4Jy, https://zenodo.org/communities/g4jy/records, and through VizieR),…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

SALT spectroscopic follow-up of the G4Jy Sample

Sarah V. White, Kshitij Thorat, Moses Mogotsi +9

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample is a thorough compilation of the 'brightest' radio sources in the southern sky (Declination < 30 deg), as measured at 151 MHz (S > 4.0 Jy) with the Mur…

astro-ph.GA2025

Revisiting the Group-Dominant Elliptical NGC 5044 in the Radio Band: Continuum Emission and Detection of HI Absorption

Kamlesh Rajpurohit, Tirna Deb, Konstantinos Kolokythas +9

We present new MeerKAT L-band (continuum and HI) and upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (300-850 MHz) observations of the archetypal cool-core group-dominant early-type galax…

astro-ph.GA2024

A spatially-resolved spectral analysis of giant radio galaxies with MeerKAT

K. K. L. Charlton, J. Delhaize, K. Thorat +13

In this study we report spatially resolved, wideband spectral properties of three giant radio galaxies (GRGs) in the COSMOS field: MGTC J095959.63+024608.6 , MGTC J100016.84+015133…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

MeerKAT follow-up of enigmatic GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) sources

Precious K. Sejake, Sarah V. White, Ian Heywood +4

We present the results from studying 140 radio sources in the GLEAM (GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA [Murchison Widefield Array]) 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample. These sources were foll…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

The extended HI halo of NGC 4945 as seen by MeerKAT

Roger Ianjamasimanana, B. S. Koribalski, Gyula I. G. Józsa +20

Observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in the nuclear starburst galaxy NGC 4945 with MeerKAT are presented. We find a large amount of halo gas, previously missed by HI ob…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 130 cited

The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey I. Survey Overview and Highlights

K. Knowles, W. D. Cotton, L. Rudnick +148

MeerKAT's large number of antennas, spanning 8 km with a densely packed 1 km core, create a powerful instrument for wide-area surveys, with high sensitivity over a wide range of an…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 1 cited

MOSS I: Double radio relics in the Saraswati supercluster

V. Parekh, R. Kincaid, K. Thorat +8

Superclusters are the largest objects in the Universe, and they provide a unique opportunity to study how galaxy clusters are born at the junction of the cosmic web as well as the…

astro-ph.GA2021

MIGHTEE: total intensity radio continuum imaging and the COSMOS / XMM-LSS Early Science fields

I. Heywood, M. J. Jarvis, C. L. Hale +23

MIGHTEE is a galaxy evolution survey using simultaneous radio continuum, spectro-polarimetry, and spectral line observations from the South African MeerKAT telescope. When complete…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

AGN feeding and feedback in Fornax A: kinematical analysis of the multi-phase ISM

F. M. Maccagni, P. Serra, M. Gaspari +10

We present a multi-wavelength study of the gaseous medium surrounding the nearby active galactic nucleus (AGN) Fornax A. Using MeerKAT, ALMA and MUSE observations we reveal a compl…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

A new look at old friends. I. Imaging classical radio galaxies with uGMRT and MeerKAT

B. Fanaroff, D. V. Lal, T. Venturi +9

We have undertaken a systematic study of FRI and FRII radio galaxies with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and MeerKAT. The main goal is to explore whether the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

MeerKAT-64 discovers wide-spread tidal debris in the nearby NGC 7232 galaxy group

Brenda Namumba, Baerbel Silvia Koribalski, Gyula I. G. Józsa +24

We report the discovery of large amounts of previously undetected cold neutral atomic hydrogen (\HI) around the core triplet galaxies in the nearby NGC~7232 galaxy group with MeerK…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

A MeerKAT view of pre-processing in the Fornax A group

D. Kleiner, P. Serra, F. M. Maccagni +18

We present MeerKAT neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the Fornax A group, that is likely falling into the Fornax cluster for the first time. Our HI image is sensitive to 1.4 x 1…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

Anomalous gas in ESO 149-G003: A MeerKAT-16 View

Gyula I. G. Józsa, Kshitij Thorat, Peter Kamphuis +28

ESO 149-G003 is a close-by, isolated dwarf irregular galaxy. Previous observations with the ATCA indicated the presence of anomalous neutral hydrogen (HI) deviating from the kinema…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 45 cited

MIGHTEE: Are giant radio galaxies more common than we thought?

J. Delhaize, I. Heywood, M. Prescott +31

We report the discovery of two new giant radio galaxies (GRGs) using the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. Both GRGs were found within a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

MeerKAT's discovery of a radio relic in the bimodal merging cluster A2384

V. Parekh, K. Thorat, R. Kale +12

We present the discovery of a single radio relic located at the edge of the galaxy cluster A2384, using the MeerKAT radio telescope. A2384 is a nearby ( = 0.092), low mass, comp…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

Point Proposal Network: Accelerating Point Source Detection Through Deep Learning

Duncan Tilley, Christopher W. Cleghorn, Kshitij Thorat +1

Point source detection techniques are used to identify and localise point sources in radio astronomical surveys. With the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

MeerKAT-16 HI observation of the dIrr galaxy WLM

Roger Ianjamasimanana, Brenda Namumba, Athanaseus J. T. Ramaila +19

We present observations and models of the kinematics and the distribution of the neutral hydrogen (HI) in the isolated dwarf irregular galaxy, Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM). We obser…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 45 cited

GASP XXVI. HI Gas in Jellyfish Galaxies: The case of JO201 and JO206

M. Ramatsoku, P. Serra, B. M. Poggianti +21

We present HI observations of the jellyfish galaxy, JO201. This massive galaxy (M M) is falling along the line-of-sight towards the centre of…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

MeerKATHI -- an end-to-end data reduction pipeline for MeerKAT and other radio telescopes

Gyula I. G. Józsa, Sarah V. White, Kshitij Thorat +13

MeerKATHI is the current development name for a radio-interferometric data reduction pipeline, assembled by an international collaboration. We create a publicly available end-to-en…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: I. Definition and the catalogue

Sarah V. White, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Chris J. Riseley +21

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has observed the entire southern sky (Declination, 30 deg) at low radio-frequencies, over the range 72-231 MHz. These observations constitu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: II. Host-galaxy identification for individual sources

Sarah V. White, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Chris J. Riseley +20

The entire southern sky (Declination, 30 deg) has been observed using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), which provides radio imaging of 2-arcmin resolution at low fre…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 79 cited

Hydrodynamical Backflow in X-shaped Radio Galaxy PKS 2014-55

W. D. Cotton, K. Thorat, J. J. Condon +13

We present MeerKAT 1.28 GHz total-intensity, polarization, and spectral-index images covering the giant (projected length ~Mpc) X-shaped radio source PKS~201455…