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most citedLoTSS jellyfish galaxies: I. Radio tails in low redshift clusters

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astro-ph.GA2023

VERTICO VII: Environmental quenching caused by suppression of molecular gas content and star formation efficiency in Virgo Cluster galaxies

Toby Brown, Ian D. Roberts, Mallory Thorp +20

We study how environment regulates the star formation cycle of 33 Virgo Cluster satellite galaxies on 720 parsec scales. We present the first resolved star-forming main sequence fo…

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★ 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★ 9 cited

VERTICO VI: Cold-gas asymmetries in Virgo cluster galaxies

Ian D. Roberts, Toby Brown, Nikki Zabel +20

We analyze cold-gas distributions in Virgo cluster galaxies using resolved CO(2-1) (tracing molecular hydrogen, H2) and HI observations from the Virgo Environment Traced In CO (VER…

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★ 16 cited

VERTICO V: The environmentally driven evolution of the inner cold gas discs of Virgo cluster galaxies

Adam B. Watts, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella +18

The quenching of cluster satellite galaxies is inextricably linked to the suppression of their cold interstellar medium (ISM) by environmental mechanisms. While the removal of neut…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

VERTICO IV: Environmental Effects on the Gas Distribution and Star Formation Efficiency of Virgo Cluster Spirals

Vicente Villanueva, Alberto D. Bolatto, Stuart Vogel +18

We measure the molecular-to-atomic gas ratio, , and the star formation rate (SFR) per unit molecular gas mass, SFE, in 38 nearby galaxies selected from the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

LoTSS Jellyfish Galaxies IV: Enhanced Star Formation on the Leading Half of Cluster Galaxies and Gas Compression in IC3949

Ian D. Roberts, Maojin Lang, Daria Trotsenko +7

With MaNGA integral field spectroscopy, we present a resolved analysis of star formation for 29 jellyfish galaxies in nearby clusters, identified from radio continuum imaging taken…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

Walk on the Low Side: LOFAR explores the low-frequency radio emission of GASP jellyfish galaxies

Alessandro Ignesti, Benedetta Vulcani, Bianca M. Poggianti +13

Jellyfish galaxies, characterized by long filaments of stripped interstellar medium extending from their disks, are the prime laboratories to study the outcomes of ram pressure str…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

High-resolution, High-sensitivity, Low-frequency uGMRT View of Coma Cluster of Galaxies

D. V. Lal, N. Lyskova, C. Zhang +12

We present high-resolution, high-sensitivity upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope observations of the Coma cluster (A1656) at 250-500 MHz and 550-850 MHz. At 250-500 MHz, 135 s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

A New Method to Constrain the Appearance and Disappearance of Observed Jellyfish Galaxy Tails

Rory Smith, Jong-Ho Shinn, Stephanie Tonnesen +11

We present a new approach to observationally constrain where the tails of Jellyfish (JF) galaxies in groups and clusters first appear and how long they remain visible with respect…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 43 cited

VERTICO II: effects of HI-identified environmental mechanisms on molecular gas

Nikki Zabel, Toby Brown, Christine D. Wilson +17

In this VERTICO early science paper we explore in detail how environmental mechanisms, identified in HI, affect the resolved properties of molecular gas reservoirs in cluster galax…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

LoTSS Jellyfish Galaxies III. The first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster

Ian D. Roberts, Reinout J. van Weeren, Roland Timmerman +4

In this paper we report the first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster (Abell 426). We identified four jellyfish galaxies (LEDA 2191078, MCG +07-07-070, UGC…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited

VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced In CO Survey

Toby Brown, Christine D. Wilson, Nikki Zabel +33

We present the Virgo Environment Traced in CO (VERTICO) survey, a new effort to map CO(), CO(), and CO() in 51 Virgo Cluster galaxies with the A…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

GASP XXXVIII: The LOFAR-MeerKAT-VLA view on the non-thermal side of a jellyfish galaxy

Alessandro Ignesti, Benedetta Vulcani, Bianca M. Poggianti +18

Ram pressure stripping is a crucial evolutionary driver for cluster galaxies. It is thought to be able to accelerate the evolution of their star formation, trigger the activity of…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

Ram Pressure Candidates in UNIONS

Ian D. Roberts, Laura C. Parker, Stephen Gwyn +17

We present a search for disturbed, candidate ram pressure stripping galaxies across more than 50 spectroscopically selected SDSS groups and clusters. Forty-eight ram pressure candi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 75 cited

LoTSS jellyfish galaxies: II. Ram pressure stripping in groups versus clusters

I. D. Roberts, R. J. van Weeren, S. L. McGee +3

Numerous examples of ram pressure stripping in galaxy clusters are present in literature; however, substantially less work has been focused on ram pressure stripping in lower mass…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 80 cited

LoTSS jellyfish galaxies: I. Radio tails in low redshift clusters

I. D. Roberts, R. J. van Weeren, S. L. McGee +6

In this paper we present a large sample of jellyfish galaxies in low redshift clusters (z<0.05), identified through 120-168 MHz radio continuum from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 73 cited

Ram pressure stripping candidates in the Coma Cluster: Evidence for enhanced star formation

Ian D. Roberts, Laura C. Parker

The Coma cluster is the nearest massive () galaxy cluster, making it an excellent laboratory to probe the influence of the cluster environment…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

"Observing" Unrelaxed Clusters in Dark Matter Simulations

Ian D. Roberts, Laura C. Parker

We present a detailed study of relaxed and unrelaxed galaxy clusters in a large dark-matter only simulation. Recent work has demonstrated clear differences between the galaxy popul…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 8 cited

Smaller stellar disc scale lengths in rich environments

Melanie L. Demers, Laura C. Parker, Ian D. Roberts

We investigate the dependence of stellar disc scale lengths on environment for a sample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxies with published photometric bulge-disc de…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 55 cited

Quenching low-mass satellite galaxies: evidence for a threshold ICM density

Ian D Roberts, Laura C Parker, Toby Brown +3

We compile a sample of SDSS galaxy clusters with high-quality Chandra X-ray data to directly study the influence of the dense intra-cluster medium (ICM) on the quenching of satelli…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 20 cited

Red Misfits in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Properties of Star-forming Red Galaxies

Fraser A. Evans, Laura C. Parker, Ian D. Roberts

We study Red Misfits, a population of red, star-forming galaxies in the local Universe. We classify galaxies based on inclination-corrected optical colours and specific star format…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

Connecting optical and X-ray tracers of galaxy cluster relaxation

Ian D. Roberts, Laura C. Parker, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo

Substantial effort has been devoted in determining the ideal proxy for quantifying the morphology of the hot intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies. These proxies, based on X-…