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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

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.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.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.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.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…

astro-ph.GA2024

A hidden Active Galactic Nuclei population: the first radio luminosity functions constructed by physical process

Leah K. Morabito, R. Kondapally, P. N. Best +10

Both star formation (SF) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play an important role in galaxy evolution. Statistically quantifying their relative importance can be done using radio lu…

astro-ph.GA2024

A GMRT 610 MHz radio survey of the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP, ADF-N) / Euclid Deep Field North

Glenn J. White, L. Barrufet, S. Serjeant +17

This paper presents a 610 MHz radio survey covering 1.94 square degrees around the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP), which includes parts of the AKARI (ADF-N) and Euclid, Deep Fields Nort…

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★ 4 cited

Core prominence as a signature of restarted jet activity in the LOFAR radio-galaxy population

Dhanya G. Nair, Raffaella Morganti, Marisa Brienza +6

(abridged) Characterizing duty cycles of recurrent phases of dormancy and activity in supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei is crucial in understanding impact of energ…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Deep Dive into the NGC 741 Galaxy Group: Insights into a Spectacular Head-Tail Radio Galaxy from VLA, MeerKAT, uGMRT and LOFAR

K. Rajpurohit, E. O'Sullivan, G. Schellenberger +17

We present deep, wideband multifrequency radio observations (144 MHz8 GHz) of the remarkable galaxy group NGC 741, which yield crucial insights into the interaction between the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Faraday tomography of LoTSS-DR2 data: III. Revealing the Local Bubble and the complex of local interstellar clouds in the high-latitude inner Galaxy

Ana Erceg, Vibor Jelić, Marijke Haverkorn +4

In this work, we present a new mosaic created with the second release of LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey data (LoTSS-DR2), which probes polarised synchrotron emission in the high-latitu…

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

PEARLS: JWST counterparts of micro-Jy radio sources in the Time Domain Field

S. P. Willner, H. B. Gim, M. del Carmen Polletta +38

The Time Domain Field (TDF) near the North Ecliptic Pole in JWST's continuous-viewing zone will become a premier "blank field" for extragalactic science. JWST/NIRCam data in a 16 a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 69 cited

The LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS): VI. Optical identifications for the second data release

M. J. Hardcastle, M. A. Horton, W. L. Williams +49

The second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) covers 27% of the northern sky, with a total area of deg. The high angular resolution of LOFAR wi…

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★ 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★ 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…

astro-ph.GA2023

Ram-pressure stripped radio tail and two ULXs in the spiral galaxy HCG 97b

Dan Hu, Michal Zajaček, Norbert Werner +11

We report LOFAR and VLA detections of extended radio emission in the spiral galaxy HCG 97b, hosted by an X-ray bright galaxy group. The extended radio emission detected at 144 MHz,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

LOFAR Deep Fields: Probing faint Galactic polarised emission in ELAIS-N1

Iva Šnidarić, Vibor Jelić, Maaijke Mevius +13

We present the first deep polarimetric study of Galactic synchrotron emission at low radio frequencies. Our study is based on 21 observations of the European Large Area Infrared Sp…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

AGN feedback in an infant galaxy cluster: the LOFAR-Chandra view of the giant FRII radio galaxy J103025+052430 at z=1.7

M. Brienza, R. Gilli, I. Prandoni +19

In the nearby universe jets from AGN are observed to have a dramatic impact on their surrounding extragalactic environment. Their effect at the `cosmic noon' (z>1.5), the epoch whe…