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astro-ph.GA2025

A Catalog of Filaments in the Central Molecular Zone

Richard G. Arendt, F. Yusef-Zadeh, I. Heywood

We present a catalog of 1.28 GHz radio filaments observed by MeerKAT over the innermost 200 pc of the Galaxy (roughly ), which includes the central molecular zone (CMZ).…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MIGHTEE: A first look at MIGHTEE quasars

Sarah V. White, Ivan Delvecchio, Nathan Adams +6

In this work we study a robust, -band complete, spectroscopically-confirmed sample of 104 unobscured (Type-1) quasars within the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields of the MeerKAT Inter…

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.GA2024

MIGHTEE: The Continuum Survey Data Release 1

C. L. Hale, I. Heywood, M. J. Jarvis +9

The MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration Survey (MIGHTEE) is one of the large survey projects using the MeerKAT telescope, covering four fields that have a we…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

MIGHTEE-HI: deep spectral line observations of the COSMOS field

I. Heywood, A. A. Ponomareva, N. Maddox +16

The MIGHTEE survey utilises the South African MeerKAT radio telescope to observe four extragalactic deep fields, with the aim of advancing our understanding of the formation and ev…

astro-ph.GA2024

Deep extragalactic HI survey of the COSMOS field with FAST

Hengxing Pan, Matt J. Jarvis, Ming Zhu +9

We present a deep HI survey at L-band conducted with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) over the COSMOS field. This survey is strategically designed t…

astro-ph.GA2024

On the implausible physical implications of a claimed lensed neutral hydrogen detection at redshift z = 1.3

Roger P. Deane, Tariq Blecher, Danail Obreschkow +1

The Square Kilometre Array mid-frequency array will enable high-redshift detections of neutral hydrogen (HI) emission in galaxies, providing important constraints on the evolution…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Neutral hydrogen lensing simulations in the Hubble Frontier Fields

Tariq Blecher, Roger Deane, Danail Obreschkow +1

Cold gas evolution ties the formation of dark matter halos to the star formation history of the universe. A primary component of cold gas, neutral atomic hydrogen (HI), can be trac…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

MeerKAT observations of starburst galaxies and AGNs within the core of XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 at = 1.46

D. Y. Klutse, M. Hilton, I. Heywood +4

We present the first detailed radio study of the galaxy cluster XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 at = 1.46 using MeerKAT -band (1.3 GHz) observations. We combine our radio observation wi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

The Population of the Galactic Center Filaments: Position Angle Distribution Reveal a Degree-scale Collimated Outflow from Sgr A* along the Galactic Plane

F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. G. Arendt, M. Wardle +1

We have examined the distribution of the position angle (PA) of the Galactic center filaments with lengths and as well as their length distribution as a functi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Search and characterization of remnant radio galaxies in the XMMLSS deep field

Sushant Dutta, Veeresh Singh, C. H. Ishwara Chandra +3

The remnant phase of a radio galaxy is characterized by the cessation of AGN activity resulting in the stoppage of jets supplying plasma to radio lobes. In this paper, we present t…

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.GA2022★ 13 cited

The population of Galactic centre filaments III: candidate radio and stellar sources

F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. G. Arendt, M. Wardle +2

Recent MeerKAT radio continuum observations of the Galactic center at 20 cm show a large population of nonthermal radio filaments (NRFs) in the inner few hundred pc of the Galaxy.…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 52 cited

MIGHTEE: the nature of the radio-loud AGN population

I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis, C. L. Hale +24

We study the nature of the faint radio source population detected in the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Early Science data in the COSMOS field…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 137 cited

The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic

I. Heywood, I. Rammala, F. Camilo +108

The inner 200 pc region of the Galaxy contains a 4 million M supermassive black hole (SMBH), significant quantities of molecular gas, and star formation and cosmic…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

Statistical Properties of the Population of the Galactic Center Filaments: The Spectral Index and Equipartition Magnetic Field

F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. G. Arendt, M. Wardle +3

We present high-pass filtered continuum images of the inner of the Galactic center at 20 cm with resolution. These mosaic images are taken with M…

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★ 15 cited

The VLA Frontier Fields Survey: Deep, High-resolution Radio Imaging of the MACS Lensing Clusters at 3 and 6 GHz

I. Heywood, E. J. Murphy, E. F. Jiménez-Andrade +9

The Frontier Fields project is an observational campaign targeting six galaxy clusters, with the intention of using the magnification provided by gravitational lensing to study gal…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

The nature of sub-millimetre galaxies I: A comparison of AGN and star-forming galaxy SED fits

T. Shanks, B. Ansarinejad, R. M. Bielby +3

High redshift sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) are usually assumed to be powered by star-formation. However, it has been clear for some time that 20% of such sources brighter than…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

The relation between the diffuse X-ray luminosity and the radio power of the central AGN in galaxy groups

T. Pasini, M. Brūggen, F. de Gasperin +10

Our understanding of how AGN feedback operates in galaxy clusters has improved in recent years owing to large efforts in multi-wavelength observations and hydrodynamical simulation…