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most citedThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey -- V. Second data release

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MIGHTEE: A first look at MIGHTEE quasars

Sarah V. White, Ivan Delvecchio, Nathan Adams +6

In this work we study a robust, -band complete, spectroscopically-confirmed sample of 104 unobscured (Type-1) quasars within the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields of the MeerKAT Inter…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Radio Galaxies in SIMBA: A MIGHTEE Comparison

Nicole L. Thomas, Imogen H. Whittam, Catherine L. Hale +4

We present a qualitative comparison between the host and black hole properties of radio galaxies in the MeerKAT GigaHertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration~(MIGHTEE) survey with the…

astro-ph.GA2024

DEVILS/MIGHTEE/GAMA/DINGO: The Impact of SFR Timescales on the SFR-Radio Luminosity Correlation

Robin H. W. Cook, Luke J. M. Davies, Jonghwan Rhee +20

The tight relationship between infrared luminosity (L) and 1.4 GHz radio continuum luminosity (L) has proven useful for understanding star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2023

MIGHTEE: multi-wavelength counterparts in the COSMOS field

I. H. Whittam, M. Prescott, C. L. Hale +26

In this paper we combine the Early Science radio continuum data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Survey, with optical and near-infrared…

astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Angular Clustering of Radio Sources

C. L. Hale, D. J. Schwarz, P. N. Best +17

Covering 5600 deg to rms sensitivities of 70100 Jy beam, the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS-DR2) provides the largest low-frequency (…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Cross-correlation with the cosmic microwave background

S. J. Nakoneczny, D. Alonso, M. Bilicki +9

We combine the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) second data release (DR2) catalogue with gravitational lensing maps from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CM…

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★ 1 cited

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey III: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) First Data Release

Alec J. M. Thomson, David McConnell, Emil Lenc +23

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope has carried out a survey of the entire Southern Sky at 887.5MHz. The wide area, high angular resolution, and broad bandwidth p…

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.IM2023★ 7 cited

Hydra II: Characterisation of Aegean, Caesar, ProFound, PyBDSF, and Selavy source finders

M. M. Boyce, A. M. Hopkins, S. Riggi +24

We present a comparison between the performance of a selection of source finders using a new software tool called Hydra. The companion paper, Paper~I, introduced the Hydra tool and…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Hydra I: An extensible multi-source-finder comparison and cataloguing tool

M. M. Boyce, A. M. Hopkins, S. Riggi +24

The latest generation of radio surveys are now producing sky survey images containing many millions of radio sources. In this context it is highly desirable to understand the perfo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

MIGHTEE: Deep 1.4 GHz Source Counts and the Sky Temperature Contribution of Star Forming Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei

C. L. Hale, I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis +22

We present deep 1.4 GHz source counts from 5 deg of the continuum Early Science data release of the MeerKAT International Gigahertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGH…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 31 cited

The Second Radio Synchrotron Background Workshop: Conference Summary and Report

J. Singal, N. Fornengo, M. Regis +24

We summarize the second radio synchrotron background workshop, which took place June 15-17, 2022 in Barolo, Italy. This meeting was convened because available measurements of the d…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 52 cited

MIGHTEE: the nature of the radio-loud AGN population

I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis, C. L. Hale +24

We study the nature of the faint radio source population detected in the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Early Science data in the COSMOS field…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 52 cited

Cosmic evolution of low-excitation radio galaxies in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey Deep Fields

R. Kondapally, P. N. Best, R. K. Cochrane +16

Feedback from low-excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) plays a key role in the lifecycle of massive galaxies in the local Universe; their evolution, and the impact of these active gal…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

A measurement of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect with the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey

Benedict Bahr-Kalus, David Parkinson, Jacobo Asorey +3

The evolution of the gravitational potentials on large scales due to the accelerated expansion of the Universe is an important and independent probe of dark energy, known as the in…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 489 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey -- V. Second data release

T. W. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle, C. Tasse +103

In this data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) we present 120-168MHz images covering 27% of the northern sky. Our coverage is split into two regions centred at ap…

astro-ph.GA2021

MIGHTEE: total intensity radio continuum imaging and the COSMOS / XMM-LSS Early Science fields

I. Heywood, M. J. Jarvis, C. L. Hale +23

MIGHTEE is a galaxy evolution survey using simultaneous radio continuum, spectro-polarimetry, and spectral line observations from the South African MeerKAT telescope. When complete…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 189 cited

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey Paper II: First Stokes I Source Catalogue Data Release

C. L. Hale, D. McConnell, A. J. M. Thomson +10

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) is the first large sky survey using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), covering the sky south of +41 declinat…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

Radio spectral properties of star-forming galaxies in the MIGHTEE-COSMOS field and their impact on the far-infrared-radio correlation

Fangxia An, M. Vaccari, Ian Smail +17

We study the radio spectral properties of 2,094 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) by combining our early science data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 1 cited

The Evolutionary Map of the Universe Pilot Survey

Ray P. Norris, Joshua Marvil, J. D. Collier +45

We present the data and initial results from the first Pilot Survey of the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), observed at 944 MHz with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pa…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 17 cited

A search for radio afterglows from gamma-ray bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

James K. Leung, Tara Murphy, Giancarlo Ghirlanda +12

We present a search for radio afterglows from long gamma-ray bursts using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Our search used the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 57 cited

A circular polarisation survey for radio stars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder

Joshua Pritchard, Tara Murphy, Andrew Zic +14

We present results from a circular polarisation survey for radio stars in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). RACS is a survey of the entire sky south of being c…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 45 cited

MIGHTEE: Are giant radio galaxies more common than we thought?

J. Delhaize, I. Heywood, M. Prescott +31

We report the discovery of two new giant radio galaxies (GRGs) using the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. Both GRGs were found within a…