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most citedSearch and analysis of giant radio galaxies with associated nuclei (SAGAN) -- I : New sample and multi-wavelength studies

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30 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

A Gamma-ray Emitting Head-Tail Radio Galaxy Swimming Through the Hot Medium of the Merging Cluster Abell 3627

Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. Böttcher, Swayamtrupta Panda +4

Head-tail radio sources are jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) moving through the dense intracluster medium of galaxy clusters. They are extremely rare in the gamma-ray sky, likel…

astro-ph.GA2026

Tracing the Cosmic web across Cosmic time through SKA observations of radio galaxies

Pratik Dabhade, Gianluca Castignani, Mousumi Mahato +4

The Square Kilometre Array will transform studies of the cosmic web by tracing radio galaxies (RGs) and star-forming systems across cosmic time with unprecedented sensitivity, angu…

astro-ph.GA2026

SMA Observations of the Archetypal Compact Steep-spectrum Radio Source 3C 303.1

Rushikesh Bhutkar, Mark Gurwell, Christopher O'Dea +5

AGN (active galactic nuclei) feedback plays a crucial role in shaping galaxy evolution. Numerical simulations show that the kinetic energy transfer efficiency from radio jets to in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulating megaparsec-scale jets of radio galaxies: Magneto-hydrodynamics of jets reaching 5 Mpc

Gourab Giri, Dario Borgogno, Marco Tavani +9

Extragalactic jets have long prompted the question of how far relativistic outflows can extend, with some radio sources reaching 5 - 7 Mpc in length. These great extents motivate i…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Emerging Population of High-energy Emitting Radio Galaxies

G. Bruni, V. S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia +22

High-energy emission from radio galaxies provides a unique laboratory to study the connection between accretion, jet formation, and particle acceleration in active galactic nuclei…

astro-ph.GA2026

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1

Vaidehi S. Paliya, Suvendu Rakshit, Alberto Dominguez +2

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies are peculiar active galactic nuclei (AGN) known to exhibit a variety of intriguing observational features from low-frequency radio waves to h…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Quasar Main Sequence of Super-Eddington NLSy1 Galaxies

Alberto Domínguez, Suvendu Rakshit, Vaidehi S. Paliya +2

The quasar main sequence, or Eigenvector 1 (EV1), describes the optical diversity of active galactic nuclei (AGN), with Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies anchoring the high-ac…

astro-ph.GA2026

Stratification of the AGN-Driven multi-phase outflows in the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395

Payel Nandi, Luis Colina, Rogemar A. Riffel +5

We present a multi-wavelength study of nuclear outflows in the nearby dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC~4395, which hosts an intermediate-mass black hole. Using \textit{JWST}/NIRSpec and MI…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Serendipitous NuSTAR Detection of a Giant Radio Source Harboring an Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus

Vaidehi S. Paliya, S. Marchesi, X. Zhao +3

Giant radio sources (GRSs) harbor the Universe's largest structures generated by individual galaxies, with projected source sizes exceeding 700 kpc. These enigmatic objects have be…

astro-ph.HE2025

Identification of Large-Scale (>100 kpc) Radio Jets in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

S. Umayal, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia +3

Powerful, large-scale relativistic jets are usually associated with massive, old elliptical galaxies. This paradigm has recently been challenged by the identification of narrow-lin…

astro-ph.HE2025

An Overview of the Effect of Self-Gravity on the Structure of Accretion Discs

Darashan Saikia, Liza Devi, Biplob Sarkar +1

In astrophysical systems like X-ray binaries (XRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGN), and young stellar objects (YSOs), we often observe a very fundamental structure called accretion…

astro-ph.GA2025

Probing the formation of megaparsec-scale giant radio galaxies II. Continuum & polarization behavior from MHD simulations

Gourab Giri, Christian Fendt, Joydeep Bagchi +4

The persistence of radiative signatures in giant radio galaxies remains a frontier topic of research, with contemporary telescopes revealing intricate features that require investi…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Detection of Teraelectronvolt Radiation from a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar

Vaidehi S. Paliya, Markus Bottcher, Kiran Wani +5

The very high-energy (VHE; 100 GeV) radiation carries the signatures of the matter-energy interaction in some of the most extreme astrophysical environments. Considering broad e…

astro-ph.HE2025

Fermi-Large Area Telescope Detection of Very High Energy (>100 GeV) Emission from Misaligned Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei

Gunjan Tomar, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia +1

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE; 100 GeV) -ray radiation from misaligned jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) challenges the emission models that primarily explain VHE…

astro-ph.GA2025

MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Observations of the Wide Angle Tail Radio Galaxy J17122435

William Cotton, Gourab Giri, P. J. Agnihotri +3

We present full polarization MeerKAT images of the wide-angle tail, giant radio galaxy J17122435 at 1.3 GHz with 7.\asec5 resolution and an RMS sensitivity of 8 Jy beam$^{-1}…

astro-ph.HE2025

Radio Morphology of Gamma-ray Sources -- II. Giant Radio Galaxies

Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia, Gabriele Bruni +2

Giant radio sources, including galaxies and quasars (hereafter GRGs), are active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosting relativistic jets with source sizes exceeding the projected length of…

astro-ph.GA2025

The long-term optical flux variations of Compact Symmetric Objects

Subhashree Swain, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia +4

Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) are a distinct category of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose optical variability characteristics have not been well investigated. We presen…

astro-ph.GA2025

Warm Ionized Gas Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei: What Causes it?

Payel Nandi, C. S. Stalin, D. J. Saikia

The driving force behind outflows, often invoked to understand the correlation between the supermassive black holes powering active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxy prop…

astro-ph.HE2025

X-ray timing and spectral characteristics of compact symmetric objects

Subhashree Swain, C. S. Stalin, Vaidehi S. Paliya +1

Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) are a distinct category of jetted active galactic nuclei whose high-energy emission is not well understood. We examined the X-ray characteristics o…

astro-ph.HE2024

DA 362: A Gamma-ray Emitting Compact Symmetric Object

Subhashree Swain, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia +1

The Gamma-ray detection from an astrophysical object indicates the presence of an extreme environment where high-energy radiation is produced. With the continuous monitoring of the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

FAST H I 21 cm study of blueberry galaxies

Yogesh Chandola, Chao-Wei Tsai, D. J. Saikia +3

Green Peas (GPs) and blueberry galaxies (BBs) are thought to be local analogs (0.1) of high redshift Ly emitters. H I study of these can help us understand the star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2024

Probing the Formation of Megaparsec-scale Giant Radio Galaxies (I): Dynamical Insights from MHD Simulations

Gourab Giri, Joydeep Bagchi, Kshitij Thorat +3

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs), a minority among the extended-jetted population, form in a wide range of jet and environmental configurations, complicating the identification of the g…

astro-ph.HE2024

Radio Morphology of Gamma-ray Sources: Double-Lobed Radio Sources

Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia, Alberto Domínguez +1

The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by relativistic jets aligned to the observer's line of sight, i.e., blazars. A few of their misaligned counterparts, e.g., radio galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

Search and analysis of giant radio galaxies with associated nuclei (SAGAN) V. Study of giant double-double radio galaxies from LoTSS DR2

Pratik Dabhade, Kshitij Chavan, D. J. Saikia +2

To test the hypothesis that megaparsec-scale giant radio galaxies (GRGs) experience multiple epochs of recurrent activity leading to their giant sizes and to understand the nature…