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most citedThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release

586 citations · 5k across the 96 of their papers we have counts for

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90 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

MEDUSA I. Tracing magnetic field structures in tidal arms of the dwarf-dwarf merger NGC 1487

Sam Taziaux, Aritra Basu, Samata Das +11

Dwarf galaxies are important laboratories for studying cosmic magnetism because they can maintain strong magnetic fields via the action of turbulent dynamo despite their low mass a…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic-ray electron propagation in NGC 3044 from radio continuum observations

Shengtao Wang, Xiaohui Sun, George Heald +5

Star-forming edge-on galaxies often exhibit extended halo radiation in multiple bands, providing ideal laboratories for studying the transfer of matter from the disk to the halo. W…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 162 cited

A radio transient with unusually slow periodic emission

N. Hurley-Walker, X. Zhang, A. Bahramian +7

The high-frequency radio sky is bursting with synchrotron transients from massive stellar explosions and accretion events, but the low-frequency radio sky has so far been quiet bey…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

VLA+VLBA to ngVLA Transition Option Concepts

Alessandra Corsi, Joseph W. Lazio, Stefi Baum +17

The next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is intended to be the premier centimeter-wavelength facility for astronomy and astrophysics, building on the substantial scientific leg…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 15 cited

On the nature of LOFAR RMs and new constraints on magnetic fields in cosmic filaments and on magnetogenesis scenarios

E. Carretti, F. Vazza, S. P. O'Sullivan +6

The measurement of magnetic fields in cosmic web filaments can be used to reveal the magnetogenesis of the Universe. In previous work, we produced first estimates of the field stre…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

The twisted jets and magnetic fields of the extended radio galaxy 4C 70.19

M. Weżgowiec, M. Jamrozy, K. T. Chyży +4

The appearance of the jets and lobes of some radio galaxies makes it difficult to assign them to a known class of objects. This is often due to the activity of the central engine a…

astro-ph.GA2024

eDIG-CHANGES III: the lagging eDIG revealed by multi-slit spectroscopy of NGC 891

Li-Yuan Lu, Jiang-Tao Li, Carlos J. Vargas +9

The kinematic information of the extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) around galaxies provides clues to the origin of the gas. The eDIG-CHANGES project studies the physical and k…

astro-ph.GA2024

Ram-pressure stripped radio tails detected in the dynamically active environment of the Shapley Supercluster

P. Merluzzi, T. Venturi, G. Busarello +13

We study the radio continuum emission of four galaxies experiencing ram-pressure stripping in four clusters of the Shapley supercluster at redshift z~0.05. Multi-band (235-1367 MHz…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: properties of radio stars at megahertz to gigahertz frequencies

Laura N. Driessen, Joshua Pritchard, Tara Murphy +12

We present the Sydney Radio Star Catalogue, a new catalogue of stars detected at megahertz to gigahertz radio frequencies. It consists of 839 unique stars with 3,405 radio detectio…

astro-ph.GA2024

Prototype Faraday rotation measure catalogs from the Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM) pilot observations

S. Vanderwoude, J. L. West, B. M. Gaensler +12

The Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM) will conduct a sensitive 1 GHz radio polarization survey covering 20 000 square degrees of the Southern sky w…

astro-ph.SR2023

Multi-epoch sampling of the radio star population with the Australian SKA Pathfinder

Joshua Pritchard, Tara Murphy, George Heald +5

The population of radio-loud stars has to date been studied primarily through either targeted observations of a small number of highly active stars or widefield, single-epoch surve…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey V: cataloguing the sky at 1367.5 MHz and the second data release of RACS-mid

S. W. Duchesne, J. A. Grundy, George H. Heald +10

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The first two RACS observing epochs, at 887.5…

astro-ph.HE2023

Characterizing Pulsars Detected in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey

Akash Anumarlapudi, Anna Ehlke, Megan L. Jones +16

We present the detection of 661 known pulsars observed with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope at 888 MHz as a part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). Detecti…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey III: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) First Data Release

Alec J. M. Thomson, David McConnell, Emil Lenc +23

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope has carried out a survey of the entire Southern Sky at 887.5MHz. The wide area, high angular resolution, and broad bandwidth p…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Detection of radio emission from stars via proper-motion searches

Laura Nicole Driessen, George Heald, Stefan W. Duchesne +4

We present a method for identifying radio stellar sources using their proper-motion. We demonstrate this method using the FIRST, VLASS, RACS-low and RACS-mid radio surveys, and ast…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 62 cited

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey IV: continuum imaging at 1367.5 MHz and the first data release of RACS-mid

S. W. Duchesne, A. J. M. Thomson, J. Pritchard +15

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is being used to undertake a campaign to rapidly survey the sky in three frequency bands across its operational spectral range. The first pass…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Radio Variable and Transient Sources on Minute Timescales in the ASKAP Pilot Surveys

Yuanming Wang, Tara Murphy, Emil Lenc +12

We present results from a radio survey for variable and transient sources on 15-min timescales, using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) pilot surveys. The pilot surveys consist…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 31 cited

RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: standards for reporting polarization and Faraday rotation measurements of radio sources

C. L. Van Eck, B. M. Gaensler, S. Hutschenreuter +11

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to development…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 29 cited

Polarized accretion shocks from the cosmic web

Tessa Vernstrom, Jennifer West, Franco Vazza +3

On the largest scales, galaxies are pulled together by gravity to form clusters, which are connected by filaments making a web-like pattern. Radio emission is predicted from this c…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 45 cited

Detection of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium of nearby galaxies using Faraday rotation

V. Heesen, S. P. O'Sullivan, M. Brüggen +15

Context. The existence of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is largely unconstrained. Their detection is important as magnetic fields can have a significant impact…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 55 cited

The Faraday Rotation Measure Grid of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Data Release 2

S. P. O'Sullivan, T. W. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle +24

A Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogue, or RM Grid, is a valuable resource for the study of cosmic magnetism. Using the second data release (DR2) from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Su…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

eDIG-CHANGES I: Extended Hα Emission from the Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas (eDIG) around CHANG-ES Galaxies

Li-Yuan Lu, Jiang-Tao Li, Carlos J. Vargas +14

The extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) represents the cool/warm ionized gas reservoir around galaxies. We present a spatial analysis of H images of 22 nearby edge-on spiral…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

HALOGAS: Strong Constraints on the Neutral Gas Reservoir and Accretion Rate in Nearby Spiral Galaxies

P. Kamphuis, E. Jütte, G. H. Heald +11

Galaxies in the local Universe are thought to require ongoing replenishment of their gas reservoir in order to maintain the observed star formation rates. Cosmological simulations…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Collimation of the kiloparsec-scale radio jets in NGC 2663

Velibor Velović, M. D. Filipović, L. Barnes +25

We present the discovery of highly-collimated radio jets spanning a total of 355 kpc around the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 2663, and the possible first detection of recollimation…