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

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273 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Odd radio circle J1555+2726: Observational evidence for shock re-acceleration of fossil plasma

L. Bruno, B. Koribalski, R. P. Norris +7

Context. Odd radio circles (ORCs) are peculiar extragalactic sources recently discovered. They are characterised by one or more bright rings extending on scales of hundreds of kilo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic Evolution Survey: LOFAR 144 MHz imaging of the COSMOS field

E. Vardoulaki, T. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle +18

We present the first deep, targeted LOFAR 144 MHz source catalogue of the COSMOS field, together with the first 144 MHz source counts in this field. The data comprise 48 h of obser…

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.CO2026

The plethora of diffuse emission in Abell 2034 as revealed by MeerKAT polarization observations

A. Bonafede, M. Balboni, G. W. Pratt +15

We present MeerKAT observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2034, a massive (M_500=5.21 10^14 solar masses) nearby cluster in a merging state. Previous observations at 144 MHz have…

astro-ph.CO2026

The topology of the magnetic field in Abell 2255 out to its virial radius. Results from the LOFAR Galaxy Cluster Ultra-Deep Field

A. Botteon, R. J. van Weeren, Y. Hu +14

We present the LOFAR Galaxy Cluster Ultra-Deep Field, in which 336 h of LOFAR observations at 120168 MHz have been collected on the nearby () cluster Abell 2255. This m…

astro-ph.CO2026

Galaxy clusters in the LoTSS-DR3: Catalogues and detection pipeline for diffuse radio emission

C. Stuardi, G. Di Gennaro, A. Botteon +19

The third data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey provides an unprecedented view of the northern sky at 144 MHz. While compact sources can be efficiently identified with aut…

astro-ph.HE2026

Mapping the emission and spectral properties of the FRI radio galaxy 3C 449 with LOFAR and the VLA

Luca Ricci, Luisa Ostorero, Raffaella Morganti +3

The jets and lobes of nearby radio galaxies are ideal laboratories to explore the spectral and dynamical evolution of the radio-emitting plasma that emanates from active galactic n…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

The LOFAR sub-arcsecond view of the high-redshift radio relic in PSZ2G091.83+26.11

G. Di Gennaro, R. Timmerman, M. Hoeft +14

Enhanced inverse Compton (IC) losses at high redshift steepen diffuse radio spectra in galaxy clusters, making low-frequency (~100 MHz) observations favorable. However, low-frequen…

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.HE2025

Pulsars identified in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey at 144 MHz

G. A. C. Rijkers, C. G. Bassa, J. R. Callingham +1

We present the astrometric identification of 80 known radio pulsars as unresolved continuum sources detected at 144 MHz in the second data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey…

astro-ph.SR2025

Occurrence rate of stellar Type II radio bursts from a 100 star-year search for coronal mass ejections

David C. Konijn, Harish K. Vedantham, Cyril Tasse +8

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of space weather in the Solar System, but their occurrence rate on other stars is unknown. A characteristic (deca-)metric radio burs…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 12 cited

Radio Burst from a Stellar Coronal Mass Ejection

J. R. Callingham, C. Tasse, R. Keers +15

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are massive expulsions of magnetised plasma from a star, and are the largest contributors to space weather in the Solar System. CMEs are theorized to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…

astro-ph.SR2025

Unusual periodic modulation in the radio emission of the methane dwarf binary WISEP J101905.63+652954.2

Timothy W. H. Yiu, Harish K. Vedantham, Joseph R. Callingham +1

Brown dwarfs display Jupiter-like auroral phenomena, such as rotationally modulated electron cyclotron maser radio emission. Radio observations of cyclotron maser emission can be u…

astro-ph.SR2025

Magnetic fields in planetary nebulae detected through non-thermal radio continuum emission

Marcin Hajduk, Timothy Shimwell, Glenn White +3

Context. Planetary nebulae are shells ejected by low- and intermediate-mass stars. The slow wind ejected by the asymptotic giant branch star is compressed by a fast stellar wind to…

astro-ph.HE2025

Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new white-dwarf-hosting long-period transient

Sanne Bloot, Harish K. Vedantham, Cees G. Bassa +6

Long-period transients (LPTs) are a new and enigmatic class of objects that produce bright pulsations in the radio, with periods far exceeding those seen in rotationally powered pu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Complex morphology and precession indicators of AGN jets in LoTSS DR2

Maya Horton, Martin Hardcastle, George Miley +2

The LOw Frequency ARray Two-metre Sky Survey second data release (LoTSS DR2) covers 27\% of the northern sky and contains around four million radio sources. The development of this…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Relighting the fire in Hickson Compact Group (HCG) 15: magnetised fossil plasma revealed by the SKA Pathfinders & Precursors

C. J. Riseley, T. Vernstrom, L. Lovisari +26

In the context of the life cycle and evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN), the environment plays an important role. In particular, the over-dense environments of galaxy groups…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

Limits and challenges of the detection of cluster-scale diffuse radio emission at high redshift: The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) in LoTSS-DR2

G. Di Gennaro, M. Brüggen, E. Moravec +14

Diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters is a tracer of ultra-relativistic particles and G-level magnetic fields, and is thought to be triggered by cluster merger events. In th…

astro-ph.CO2025

PSZ2 G181.06+48.47 II: radio analysis of a low-mass cluster with exceptionally-distant radio relics

Kamlesh Rajpurohit, Andra Stroe, Ewan O'Sullivan +13

We report upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array radio observations of a low-mass merging galaxy cluster PSZ2 G181.06+48.47. This exceptional…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Non-thermal filaments and AGN recurrent activity in the galaxy group Nest200047: a LOFAR, uGMRT, MeerKAT, VLA radio spectral analysis

M. Brienza, K. Rajpurohit, E. Churazov +15

Nest200047 is a clear example of multiple radio bubbles from an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in a galaxy group, featuring non-thermal filaments likely shaped by buoyancy, gas moti…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 12 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Deep Fields Data Release 2. I. The ELAIS-N1 field

T. W. Shimwell, C. L. Hale, P. N. Best +29

We present the final 6'' resolution data release of the ELAIS-N1 field from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields project (LoTSS Deep). The 144MHz images…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The Jet Paths of Radio AGN and their Cluster Weather

E. Vardoulaki, V. Backöfer, A. Finoguenov +21

We studied bent radio sources within X-ray galaxy groups in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields, using radio data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Explorations dat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

LOFAR Deep Fields: Probing the sub-mJy regime of polarized extragalactic sources in ELAIS-N1. II. Analysis

S. Piras, C. Horellou, J. Conway +7

Deep polarization surveys at low radio frequencies are key to cosmic magnetism studies: Larger catalogs of polarized extragalactic sources and increased precision on Faraday rotati…