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most citedThe Murchison Widefield Array: the Square Kilometre Array Precursor at low radio frequencies

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astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Multi-scale feedback and feeding in the closest radio galaxy Centaurus A

B. McKinley, S. J. Tingay, M. Gaspari +12

Supermassive black holes and supernovae explosions at the centres of active galaxies power cycles of outflowing and inflowing gas that affect galactic evolution and the overall str…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

The GLEAM 200 MHz Local Radio Luminosity Function for AGN and Star-forming Galaxies

T. M. O. Franzen, N. Seymour, E. M. Sadler +24

The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) is a radio continuum survey at 76-227 MHz of the entire southern sky (Declination ) with an angular…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio `Jellyfish' Uncovered in Abell 2877

Torrance Hodgson, Iacopo Bartalucci, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt +3

We report on the discovery of a mysterious ultra-steep spectrum (USS) synchrotron source in the galaxy cluster Abell 2877. We have observed the source with the Murchison Widefield…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Low(er) frequency follow-up of 28 candidate, large-scale synchrotron sources

Torrance Hodgson, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Benajmin McKinley +2

We follow up on a report by Vacca et al. (2018) of 28 candidate large-scale diffuse synchrotron sources in an 8°8° area of the sky (centred at RA 5h0m0s Dec 5°48'0''). Thes…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 60 cited

GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey II: Galactic Plane ,

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Paul J. Hancock, Thomas M. O. Franzen +16

This work makes available a further 2,860deg of the GLEAM survey, covering half of the accessible Galactic Plane, across twenty frequency bands sampling MHz, with resol…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 2 cited

Murchison Widefield Array and XMM-Newton observations of the Galactic supernova remnant G5.9+3.1

D. Onić, M. D. Filipović, I. Bojičić +27

In this paper we discuss the radio continuum and X-ray properties of the so-far poorly studied Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G5.9+3.1. We present the radio spectral energy distr…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Galactic synchrotron distribution derived from 152 HII region absorption features in the full GLEAM survey

H. Su, J. P. Macquart, N. Hurley-Walker +22

We derive the synchrotron distribution in the Milky Way disk from HII region absorption observations over -40° < l < 40° at six frequencies of 76.2, 83.8, 91.5, 99.2, 106.9, and 11…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 28 cited

The jet/wind outflow in Centaurus A: a local laboratory for AGN feedback

B. McKinley, S. J. Tingay, E. Carretti +20

We present new radio and optical images of the nearest radio galaxy Centaurus A and its host galaxy NGC 5128. We focus our investigation on the northern transition region, where en…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 57 cited

The Spectral Energy Distribution of Powerful Starburst Galaxies I: Modelling the Radio Continuum

T J Galvin, N Seymour, J Marvil +24

We have acquired radio continuum data between 70\,MHz and 48\,GHz for a sample of 19 southern starburst galaxies at moderate redshifts () with the aim of separat…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

Spectral energy distribution and radio halo of NGC 253 at low radio frequencies

A. D. Kapinska, L. Staveley-Smith, R. Crocker +67

We present new radio continuum observations of NGC253 from the Murchison Widefield Array at frequencies between 76 and 227 MHz. We model the broadband radio spectral energy distrib…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 170 cited

Extragalactic Peaked-Spectrum Radio Sources at Low Frequencies

J. R. Callingham, R. D. Ekers, B. M. Gaensler +21

We present a sample of 1,483 sources that display spectral peaks between 72 MHz and 1.4 GHz, selected from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM)…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

A search for long-timescale, low-frequency radio transients

Tara Murphy, David L. Kaplan, Steve Croft +30

We present a search for transient and highly variable sources at low radio frequencies (150-200 MHz) that explores long timescales of 1-3 years. We conducted this search by compari…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements between 250° < l < 355° from the GLEAM survey with the MWA

H. Su, N. Hurley-Walker, C. A. Jackson +20

Synchrotron emission pervades the Galactic plane at low radio frequencies, originating from cosmic ray electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field. Using a low-frequency…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 80 cited

Low frequency observations of linearly polarized structures in the interstellar medium near the south Galactic pole

Emil Lenc, B. M. Gaensler, X. H. Sun +76

We present deep polarimetric observations at 154 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), covering 625 deg^2 centered on RA=0 h, Dec=-27 deg. The sensitivity available in our…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

The radio spectral energy distribution of infrared-faint radio sources

A. Herzog, R. P. Norris, E. Middelberg +57

Infrared-faint radio sources (IFRS) are a class of radio-loud (RL) active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshifts (z > 1.7) that are characterised by their relative infrared faintn…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 18 cited

A Large Scale, Low Frequency Murchison Widefield Array Survey of Galactic HII regions between 260< l <\340

L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, N. Hurley-Walker +40

We have compiled a catalogue of HII regions detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) between 72 and 231MHz. The multiple frequency bands provided by the MWA allow us ident…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 89 cited

Broadband Spectral Modeling of the Extreme Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Source PKS B0008-421

J. R. Callingham, B. M. Gaensler, R. D. Ekers +40

We present broadband observations and spectral modeling of PKS B0008-421, and identify it as an extreme gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) source. PKS B0008-421 is characterized by th…

astro-ph.GA2015

An analysis of the halo and relic radio emission from Abell 3376 from Murchison Widefield Array observations

Lijo T. George, K. S. Dwarakanath, M. Johnston-Hollitt +48

We have carried out multiwavelength observations of the near-by () rich, merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376 with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). As a part of the GaLac…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 44 cited

The Spectral Variability of the GHz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Source PKS 1718-649 and a Comparison of Absorption Models

S. J. Tingay, J. -P. Macquart, J. D. Collier +42

Using the new wideband capabilities of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), we obtain spectra for PKS 1718-649, a well-known gigahertz-peaked spectrum radio source. The ob…

astro-ph.GA2014

First Look Murchison Widefield Array observations of Abell 3667

L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, N. Hurley-Walker +51

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low frequency interferometric radio telescope, operating in the remote Murchison Radio Observatory in Western Australia. In this paper…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 44 cited

The first Murchison Widefield Array low frequency radio observations of cluster scale non-thermal emission: the case of Abell 3667

L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, N. Hurley-Walker +51

We present the first Murchison Widefield Array observations of the well-known cluster of galaxies Abell 3667 (A3667) between 105 and 241 MHz. A3667 is one of the best known example…