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most citedThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey -- V. Second data release

489 citations · 864 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The LOFAR Decametre Sky Survey (LoDeSS) I. Survey description and first data release

C. M. Cordun, C. Groeneveld, H. W. Edler +12

The decametre radio sky (- MHz) remains largely unexplored due to strong ionospheric distortions and severe radio-frequency interference. Despite its scientific potent…

astro-ph.GA2026

ViCTORIA project: A pilot study of the M49 region in the Virgo cluster in polarisation

A. Spasic, A. Benati, M. Brüggen +7

Large-scale magnetic fields permeate the Intracluster Medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. Understanding these fields gives an insight into the origin of cosmic magnetic fields and the…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Cosmic Ray Life Cycle in Galaxy Clusters

Francesco de Gasperin, Marcus Brüggen, Henrik Edler +3

Within the cosmic web, gravitational energy, linked to the formation and growth of the Universe's largest structures and the activity of active galactic nuclei (AGN), is converted…

astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring the physics of ram pressure stripping with radio continuum observations in the SKA era

Alessandro Ignesti, Ian D. Roberts, Henrik W. Edler +4

Satellite galaxies in clusters are significantly more likely to be red and passive than similar mass galaxies in the field. This fact is known as the environmental quenching of gal…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XX. Star formation in the tidal tail of NGC 4254

A. Boselli, A. Lupi, P. Serra +26

ALMA 12CO(1-0) observations of 42 star-forming regions located outside the disc of the Virgo Cluster galaxy NGC4254 within an HI gas tail produced during the galaxy's interaction w…

astro-ph.GA2026

Nearby galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey IV. A fundamental plane of the radio-SFR relation

V. Heesen, H. W. Edler, M. Brüggen +7

Radio continuum emission has the potential to be an extinction-free tracer of star formation. However, the relation between radio continuum luminosity and star formation rate, the…

astro-ph.HE2026

Multi-wavelength insights into the pulsar wind nebula candidate near 1LHAASO J0343+5254u: an obscured merging galaxy cluster?

H. W. Edler, M. Arias, A. Botteon +1

The advent of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) accelerated the detection of TeV and PeV gamma-ray sources. Some of these are associated with pulsar wind nebu…

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.GA2026

The longest known tails of ram-pressure-stripped star-forming galaxies are caused by an intracluster medium shock in Abell 1367

H. W. Edler, M. Hoeft, S. Bhagat +10

The environment plays an important role in shaping the evolution of cluster galaxies through mechanisms such as ram pressure stripping (RPS), whose effect may be enhanced in mergin…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

LOFAR 58 MHz Legacy Survey of the 3CRR Catalog

J. M. Boxelaar, F. De Gasperin, M. J. Hardcastle +4

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is uniquely able to perform deep, 15" resolutions imaging at frequencies below 100 MHz. Observations in this regime, using the Low Band Antenna (LBA…

astro-ph.IM2025

Simulating realistic radio continuum survey maps with diffusion models

Tobias Vičánek Martínez, Henrik W. Edler, Marcus Brüggen

The next generation of radio surveys is going to be transformative for cosmology and other aspects of our understanding of astrophysics. Realistic simulations of radio observations…

astro-ph.CO2025

A view of the CIZA J2242.8+5301 galaxy cluster at very low radio frequencies

G. Lusetti, M. Brüggen, H. W. Edler +9

The galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301 is a well-studied merging galaxy cluster that hosts prominent double radio relics including the famous sausage relic, as well as other diffuse…

astro-ph.GA2025

The low-frequency flattening of the radio spectrum of giant HII regions in M 101

L. Gajović, V. Heesen, M. Brüggen +10

In galaxies, the flattening of the spectrum at low radio frequencies below 300 MHz has been the subject of some debate. A turnover at low frequencies could be caused by multiple ph…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

The ViCTORIA project: description of a multi-frequency radio survey of the Virgo galaxy cluster

F. de Gasperin, H. W. Edler, A. Boselli +8

The Virgo cluster is the closest richest nearby galaxy cluster. It is in the formation process, with a number of sub-clusters undergoing merging and interactions. Although a great…

astro-ph.CO2024

Ultra-low frequency LOFAR spectral indices of cluster radio halos

T. Pasini, F. de Gasperin, M. Brüggen +11

A fraction of galaxy clusters harbor diffuse radio sources known as radio halos. The currently adopted scenario for their formation is based on second-order Fermi re-acceleration o…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

A 100 kpc Ram Pressure Tail Trailing the Group Galaxy NGC 2276

I. D. Roberts, R. J. van Weeren, F. de Gasperin +5

We present the discovery of a 100 kpc low-frequency radio tail behind the nearby group galaxy, NGC 2276. The extent of this tail is a factor of ten larger than previously reported…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

A spatially resolved radio spectral study of the galaxy M 51

L. Gajović, B. Adebahr, A. Basu +14

Radio continuum emission from galaxies at gigahertz frequencies can be used as an extinction-free tracer of star formation. However, at frequencies of a few hundred megahertz, ther…

astro-ph.HE2024

ViCTORIA project: The LOFAR-MeerKAT view of AGN in Virgo cluster early-type galaxies

A. Spasic, H. W. Edler, Y. Su +8

The evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is closely connected to their host galaxies and surroundings. Via feedback processes, AGN can counteract the cooling of the intraclust…

astro-ph.CO2024

Re-energisation of AGN head-tail radio galaxies in the galaxy cluster ZwCl0634.1+47474

G. Lusetti, F. de Gasperin, V. Cuciti +10

Low-frequency radio observations show an increasing number of radio galaxies located in galaxy clusters that display peculiar morphologies and spectral profiles. This is the result…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 15 cited

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: View of the Virgo Cluster

Hannah McCall, Thomas H. Reiprich, Angie Veronica +11

As the closest galaxy cluster, the Virgo Cluster is an exemplary environment for the study of the large-scale filamentary structure and physical effects that are present in cluster…

astro-ph.GA2023

ViCTORIA project: The LOFAR-view of environmental effects in Virgo Cluster star-forming galaxies

H. W. Edler, I. D. Roberts, A. Boselli +5

Environmental effects such as ram-pressure stripping (RPS) shape the evolution of galaxies in dense regions. We use the nearby Virgo cluster as a laboratory to study environmental…

astro-ph.GA2023

Nearby galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey III. Influence of cosmic-ray transport on the radio-SFR relation

V. Heesen, S. Schulz, M. Brüggen +7

Context. In order to understand galaxy evolution, it is essential to measure star formation rates (SFRs) across Cosmic times. Aims. The use of radio continuum emission as an extinc…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 14 cited

Deep learning-based radiointerferometric imaging with GAN-aided training

F. Geyer, K. Schmidt, J. Kummer +7

Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to cre…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

ViCTORIA project: MeerKAT HI observations of the ram pressure stripped galaxy NGC 4523

A. Boselli, P. Serra, F. de Gasperin +22

We present the first results of a 21 cm HI line pilot observation carried out with MeerKAT in preparation for the ViCTORIA project, an untargeted survey of the Virgo galaxy cluster…