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most citedThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - I. Survey Description and Preliminary Data Release

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astro-ph.GA2026

The MIni-Halos in MIni-Clusters (MIMIC) project: New insights into the origin of mini-halos from a LOFAR, uGMRT, and MeerKAT study of diffuse radio emission in Abell 496 and ZwCl 235

F. Ubertosi, S. Giacintucci, A. Botteon +18

We aim at investigating the presence of diffuse radio emission in low-mass (M M), relaxed galaxy clusters. We present a pilot study for the MIMI…

astro-ph.GA2026

A radio continuum view of Stephan's Quintet: age, dynamics and origin of the shock

K. Rajpurohit, E. O'Sullivan, G. Schellenberger +10

We present a detailed, multi-band radio continuum study of the compact galaxy group Stephan's Quintet (HCG 92). We use a combination of new (MeerKAT, uGMRT) and archival (LOFAR, VL…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ultra low-frequency spectral properties of bright extended radio galaxies in the 3CRR catalogue

J. M. Boxelaar, F. De Gasperin, M. J. Hardcastle +2

Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are fundamental drivers of galaxy evolution, injecting kinetic energy into their environments. The large-scale morphology and spectral pr…

astro-ph.GA2026

Molecular Clouds Resolved at the Onset of Cosmic Noon

Bjorn Emonts, Matthew Lehnert, Mingyu Li +10

We present the discovery of seven molecular clouds in the radio galaxy B2 0902+34 at redshift z=3.4. These clouds are detected as CO(0-1) absorption features against the bright rad…

astro-ph.GA2026

The sub-arcsecond ILT view of the Boötes Deep Field: A link between low-frequency kiloparsec radio morphology and AGN driven ionised outflows

Emmy L. Escott, Leah K. Morabito, Frits Sweijen +8

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) outflows can regulate host galaxy evolution via AGN feedback. Ionised gas outflows have been linked to enhanced radio emission. In the first paper of t…

astro-ph.GA2026

Testing the correlation between bending angle and polarization properties of bent radio galaxies

S. Vanderwoude, E. Osinga, B. M. Gaensler +2

The bending of radio galaxies in galaxy clusters is expected to be caused by interactions with the local environment. The physical processes responsible for jet bending, and their…

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.GA2025★ 4 cited

Revealing the intricacies of radio galaxies and filaments in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 2255. I. Insights from deep LOFAR-VLBI sub-arcsecond resolution images

E. De Rubeis, M. Bondi, A. Botteon +7

High sensitivity of modern interferometers is revealing a plethora of filaments surrounding radio galaxies, especially in galaxy cluster environments. The morphology and spectral c…

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★ 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

Absorption of Millimeter-band CO and CN in the Early Universe: Molecular Clouds in Radio Galaxy B2 0902+34 at Redshift 3.4

Bjorn Emonts, Steve Curran, George Miley +9

Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), we have detected absorption lines due to carbon-monoxide, CO(J=0-1), and the cyano radical, CN(N=0-1), associated with radio galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2024

TREASUREHUNT: Transients and Variability Discovered with HST in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field

Rosalia O'Brien, Rolf A. Jansen, Norman A. Grogin +56

The JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time Domain Field (TDF) is a 14 arcmin diameter field optimized for multi-wavelength time-domain science with JWST. It has been observed acros…

astro-ph.GA2023

LOFAR HBA Observations of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN)

M. Bondi, R. Scaramella, G. Zamorani +19

We present the first deep (72 hours of observations) radio image of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) obtained with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) High Band Antenna (HBA) at 144…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Weak-Lensing Analysis of the Complex Cluster Merger Abell 746 with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam

Kim HyeongHan, Hyejeon Cho, M. James Jee +15

The galaxy cluster Abell 746 (A746; =0.214), featuring a double radio relic system, two isolated radio relics, a possible radio halo, disturbed V-shaped X-ray emission, and intr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Radio-continuum spectra of ram pressure stripped galaxies in the Coma Cluster

I. D. Roberts, R. J. van Weeren, D. V. Lal +7

We used the nearby Coma Cluster as a laboratory in order to probe the impact of ram pressure on star formation as well as to constrain the characteristic timescales and vel…

astro-ph.GA2023

The composition and thermal properties of a cool core lacking a brightest cluster galaxy

Yuanyuan Su, Francoise Combes, Valeria Olivares +3

We present a multiwavelength observation of a cool core that does not appear to be associated with any galaxy, in a nearby cluster, Abell~1142. Its X-ray surface brightness peak of…

astro-ph.GA2023

The High-Redshift Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey: Investigating the Role of Environment on Bent Radio AGNs using LOFAR

Emmet Golden-Marx, Emily Moravec, Lu Shen +10

Bent radio AGN morphology depends on the density of the surrounding gas. However, bent sources are found inside and outside clusters, raising the question of how environment impact…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

A MeerKAT-meets-LOFAR study of Abell 1413: a moderately disturbed non-cool-core cluster hosting a kpc 'mini'-halo

C. J. Riseley, N. Biava, G. Lusetti +12

Many relaxed cool-core clusters host diffuse radio emission on scales of hundreds of kiloparsecs: mini-haloes. However, the mechanism responsible for generating them, as well as th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

New filamentary remnant radio emission and duty cycle constraints in the radio galaxy NGC 6086

S. Candini, M. Brienza, A. Bonafede +6

Radio galaxies are a subclass of active galactic nuclei in which accretion onto the supermassive black hole releases energy via relativistic jets. The jets are not constantly activ…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

ViCTORIA project: The LOFAR HBA Virgo Cluster Survey

H. W. Edler, F. de Gasperin, T. W. Shimwell +15

The Virgo cluster is the nearest massive galaxy cluster and thus a prime target to study astrophysical processes in dense large-scale environments. In the radio band, we can probe…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

VLBI Imaging of high-redshift galaxies and protoclusters at low radio frequencies with the International LOFAR Telescope

C. M. Cordun, R. Timmerman, G. K. Miley +4

It has long been known that luminous, ultra-steep spectrum radio sources are preferentially associated with massive galaxies at high redshifts. Here we describe a pilot project dir…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

Radio continuum tails in ram pressure-stripped spiral galaxies: experimenting with a semi-empirical model in Abell 2255

A. Ignesti, B. Vulcani, A. Botteon +7

Wide-field radio continuum observations of galaxy clusters are revealing an increasing number of spiral galaxies hosting tens of kpc-long radio tails produced by the nonthermal int…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 90 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields Data Release 1: V. Survey description, source classifications and host galaxy properties

P. N. Best, R. Kondapally, W. L. Williams +26

Source classifications, stellar masses and star formation rates are presented for 80,000 radio sources from the first data release of the Low Frequency Array Two-metre Sky Survey (…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

The diffuse radio emission in the high-redshift cluster PSZ2 G091.83+26.11: total intensity and polarisation analysis with Very Large Array 1-4 GHz observations

G. Di Gennaro, M. Brüggen, R. J. van Weeren +8

We present the peculiar case of PSZ2G091.83+26.11 at z=0.822. This cluster hosts a Mpc-scale radio halo and an elongated radio source, whose location with the respect to the intrac…