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20162026
most citedExploring the Transient Radio Sky with VLITE: Early Results

58 citations · 199 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

A Parsec-Scale Transient High-Frequency-Peaked Radio Source in the Very Large Array Sky Survey Brightening and Fading over a Decadal Timescale

Yuyang Chen, B. M. Gaensler, Maria R. Drout +10

A subset of active galactic nuclei (AGN) manifests as compact radio sources with peaked radio spectra, commonly referred to as peaked-spectrum (PS) sources. Generally, PS sources a…

astro-ph.HE2026

First Detection of Radio Polarization During Jet Formation in the Changing-Look AGN 1ES 1927+654

Onic I. Shuvo, Eileen T. Meyer, Sibasish Laha +10

We present a multiwavelength radio study of the changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654 following its renewed X-ray brightening since mid-2022, combining VLBA imaging with multi-band and ti…

astro-ph.IM2026

The MegaWave Radio Surveyor

T. Joseph W. Lazio, Evgenya Shkolnik, James Aguirre +40

Several Decadal-level questions in astrophysics, exoplanets, astrobiology, and cosmology can be addressed only at low radio frequencies inaccessible from Earth. The MegaWave Radio…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Compact Symmetric Object Discovered by the VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment

Kristina Nyland, Mary Rachelle Barrett, Genna Crom +11

We present new Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) imaging of a MHz-peaked spectrum (MPS) source that was found using commensal low-frequency data taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very La…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The structure of the giant radio fossil in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster

Simona Giacintucci, Maxim Markevitch, Tracy Clarke +1

We present high-sensitivity follow-up observations of the giant fossil radio lobe in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in the 1…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Radio Flaring, Chromospherically-Inactive K Dwarf

Dale A. Frail, Scott D. Hyman, Michele L. Silverstein +10

We report on an unusual radio source J180526-292953, initially identified as a steep spectrum, polarized point source toward the Galactic bulge and found to coincide with the nearb…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Primary Beam Calibration for Commensal Telescopes Utilizing Offset Optics

Emil Polisensky, Tracy E. Clarke, Simona Giacintucci +1

Accurate primary beam calibration is essential for precise brightness measurements in radio astronomy. The VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE) faces challenges…

astro-ph.GA2024

Multi-frequency Radio Observations of the Dissociative Cluster Merger CIZA J0107.7+5408

Emma Schwartzman, Tracy Clarke, Simona Giacintucci +9

We present new radio observations of the galaxy cluster merger CIZA J0107.7+5408 (CIZA0107), a large, roughly equal mass, post-core passage, dissociative binary system at z = 0.106…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Multi-Epoch Jet Outbursts in Abell 496: synchrotron ageing and buoyant X-ray cavities draped by warm gas filaments

Francesco Ubertosi, Simona Giacintucci, Tracy Clarke +4

The galaxy cluster Abell 496 has been extensively studied in the past for the clear sloshing motion of the hot gas on large scales, but the interplay between the central radio gala…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 19 cited

Probing cluster magnetism with embedded and background radio sources in Planck clusters

Erik Osinga, Reinout J. van Weeren, Lawrence Rudnick +6

Magnetic fields remain an enigmatic part of the content of galaxy clusters. Faraday rotation and depolarisation of extragalactic radio sources are useful probes, but the limited av…

astro-ph.GA2024

Spectrum and polarization of the Galactic center radio transient ASKAP J173608.2-321635 from THOR-GC and VLITE

Kierra J. Weatherhead, Jeroen M. Stil, Michael Rugel +11

The radio transient ASKAP J173608.2-321735, at the position (l,b)= (356.0872,-0.0390), was serendipitously observed by The HI/OH/Recombination Line Survey of the Galactic Center (T…

astro-ph.HE2023

A VLITE Search for Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters: Discovery of a Pulsar in GLIMPSE-C01

Amaris V. McCarver, Thomas J. Maccarone, Scott M. Ransom +8

We present results from a search for pulsars in globular clusters, including the discovery of a new millisecond pulsar in the stellar cluster GLIMPSE-C01. We searched for low frequ…

astro-ph.HE2023

Are radio minihalos confined by cold fronts in galaxy clusters? Minihalos and large-scale sloshing in A3444 and MS 1455.0+2232

Simona Giacintucci, Tiziana Venturi, Maxim Markevitch +3

We present radio and X-ray studies of A3444 and MS1455.0+2232, two galaxy clusters with radio minihalos in their cool cores. A3444 is imaged using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telesco…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

Radio observations of SN2004dk with VLITE confirm late-time re-brightening

Arvind Balasubramanian, Alessandra Corsi, Emil Polisensky +2

The study of stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae (SNe), with evidence for strong interaction of SN ejecta with the circumstellar medium (CSM), provides insights into the pre…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

High-resolution VLA low radio frequency observations of the Perseus cluster: radio lobes, mini-halo and bent-jet radio galaxies

Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Reinout J. van Weeren +11

We present the first high-resolution 230-470 MHz map of the Perseus cluster obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. The high dynamic range and resolution achieved has al…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 3 cited

Extended Radio Structures and a Compact X-ray Cool-Core in the Cluster Source PKS 1353-341

C. C. Cheung, Simona Giacintucci, T. E. Clarke

We present a radio and X-ray study of PKS 1353-341, the brightest cluster galaxy radio source at the center of a recent Chandra-discovered X-ray cluster. Our multi-frequency VLA im…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 3 cited

Radio follow-up of a candidate gamma-ray transient in the sky localization area of GW170608

Kyle Artkop, Rachel Smith, Alessandra Corsi +5

After the identification of a candidate -ray transient in the error region of the binary black hole (BBH) merger GW150914 by the \textit{Fermi} satellite, the question of whethe…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 45 cited

Deep 230-470 MHz VLA Observations of the mini-halo in the Perseus Cluster

M. Gendron-Marsolais, J. Hlavacek-Larrondo, R. J. van Weeren +6

We present a low-frequency view of the Perseus cluster with new observations from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) at 230-470 MHz. The data reveal a multitude of new stru…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 58 cited

Exploring the Transient Radio Sky with VLITE: Early Results

E. Polisensky, W. M. Lane, S. D. Hyman +6

We report on a search for radio transients at 340 MHz with the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) Low band Ionospheric and Transient Experiment (VLITE). Between 2015 July 29 and 2015 Se…