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Modeling and Calibration of Gaia, Hipparcos, and Tycho-2 astrometric data for the detection of dark companions
(2024-03-28)
Hidden within the Gaia satellite’s multiple data releases lies a valuable cache of dark companions. To facilitate the efficient and reliable detection of these companions via combined analyses involving the Gaia, Hipparcos, ...
Strategies for optimal sky subtraction in the low surface brightness regime
(2024-03-01)
The low surface brightness (LSB) regime (μg ≳ 26 mag arcsec−2) comprises a vast, mostly unexplored discovery space, from dwarf galaxies to the diffuse interstellar medium. Accessing this regime requires precisely removing ...
SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results
(2023-08-31)
The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomers will be correspondingly large and complex, ...
Finding AGN remnant candidates based on radio morphology with machine learning
(2023-04-12)
Context. Remnant radio galaxies represent the dying phase of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). Large samples of remnant radio galaxies are important for quantifying the radio-galaxy life cycle. The remnants of ...
The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
(2023-03-11)
WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, ...
Radio source-component association for the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey with region-based convolutional neural networks
(2022-12-01)
Radio loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGNs) are often morphologically complex objects that can consist of multiple, spatially separated, components. Astronomers often rely on visual inspection to resolve radio component ...
Faraday tomography of LoTSS-DR2 data : I. Faraday moments in the high-latitude outer Galaxy and revealing Loop III in polarisation
(2022-07-01)
Context. Observations of synchrotron emission at low radio frequencies reveal a labyrinth of polarised Galactic structures. However, the explanation for the wealth of structures remains uncertain due to the complex ...
How the spectral energy distribution and galaxy morphology constrain each other, with application to morphological selection using galaxy colours
(2022-03-01)
We introduce an empirical methodology to study how the spectral energy distribution (SED) and galaxy morphology constrain each other and implement this on 8000 galaxies from the HST CANDELS survey in the GOODS-South field. ...
Sub-arcsecond imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope : I. Foundational calibration strategy and pipeline
(2022-02-28)
The International LOFAR Telescope is an interferometer with stations spread across Europe. With baselines of up to ∼2000 km, LOFAR has the unique capability of achieving sub-arcsecond resolution at frequencies below 200 ...
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey -- V. Second data release
(2022-02-25)
In this data release from the ongoing LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey we present 120a 168 MHz images covering 27% of the northern sky. Our coverage is split into two regions centred at approximately 12h45m ...