Browsing by Author "Mandal, S."

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    • The beautiful mess in Abell 2255 

      Botteon, A.; Brunetti, G.; Weeren, R. J. van; Shimwell, T. W.; Pizzo, R. F.; Cassano, R.; Iacobelli, M.; Gastaldello, F.; Bîrzan, L.; Bonafede, A.; Brüggen, M.; Cuciti, V.; Dallacasa, D.; Gasperin, F. de; Gennaro, G. Di; Drabent, A.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Hoeft, M.; Mandal, S.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Simionescu, A. (2020-07-07)
      We present LOFAR observations of one of the most spectacular objects in the radio sky: Abell 2255. This is a nearby ($z = 0.0806$) merging galaxy cluster hosting one of the first radio halos ever detected in the intra-cluster ...

    • Diffuse Radio Emission from Galaxy Clusters in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields 

      Osinga, E.; Weeren, R. J. van; Boxelaar, J.; Brunetti, G.; Botteon, A.; Brüggen, M.; Shimwell, T. W.; Bonafede, A.; Best, P. N.; Bonato, M.; Cassano, R.; Gastaldello, F.; Gennaro, G. di; Hardcastle, M. J.; Mandal, S.; Rossetti, M.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Sabater, J. (2021-04-07)
      Low-frequency radio observations are revealing an increasing number of diffuse synchrotron sources from galaxy clusters, dominantly in the form of radio halos or radio relics. The existence of this diffuse synchrotron ...

    • The great Kite in the sky: a LOFAR observation of the radio source in Abell 2626 

      Ignesti, A.; Shimwell, T.; Brunetti, G.; Gitti, M.; Intema, H.; Weeren, R. J. van; Hardcastle, M. J.; Clarke, A. O.; Botteon, A.; Gennaro, G. Di; Brüggen, M.; Browne, I.; Mandal, S.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Cuciti, V.; Gasperin, F. de; Cassano, R.; Scaife, Anna M.M. (2020-09-29)
      The radio source at the center of the galaxy cluster Abell 2626, also known as the Kite, stands out for its unique morphology composed of four, symmetric arcs. Previous studies have probed the properties of this source at ...

    • The life cycle of radio galaxies in the LOFAR Lockman Hole field 

      Jurlin, N.; Morganti, R.; Brienza, M.; Mandal, S.; Maddox, N.; Duncan, K. J.; Shabala, S. S.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Prandoni, I.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Mahatma, V.; Best, P. N.; Mingo, B.; Sabater, J.; Shimwell, T. W.; Tasse, C. (2020-06-08)
      Radio galaxies are known to go through cycles of activity, where phases of apparent quiescence can be followed by repeated activity of the central supermassive black hole. A better understanding of this cycle is crucial ...

    • The Lockman Hole project : LOFAR observations and spectral index properties of low-frequency radio sources 

      Mahony, E. K.; Morganti, R.; Prandoni, I.; Bemmel, I. M. van; Shimwell, T. W.; Brienza, M.; Best, P. N.; Brüggen, M.; Rivera, G. Calistro; Gasperin, F. de; Hardcastle, M. J.; Harwood, J. J.; Heald, G.; Jarvis, M. J.; Mandal, S.; Miley, G. K.; Retana-Montenegro, E.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Sabater, J.; Tasse, C.; Velzen, S. van; Weeren, R. J. van; Williams, W. L.; White, G. J. (2016-12-11)
      The Lockman Hole is a well-studied extragalactic field with extensive multi-band ancillary data covering a wide range in frequency, essential for characterising the physical and evolutionary properties of the various source ...

    • The LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey : Deep Fields Data Release 1, I -- Direction-dependent calibration and imaging 

      Tasse, C.; Shimwell, T.; Hardcastle, M. J.; O'Sullivan, S. P.; Weeren, R. van; Best, P. N.; Bester, L.; Hugo, B.; Smirnov, O.; Sabater, J.; Calistro-Rivera, G.; Gasperin, F. de; Morabito, L. K.; Röttgering, H.; Williams, W. L.; Bonato, M.; Bondi, M.; Botteon, A.; Brüggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Chyży, K. T.; Garrett, M. A.; Gürkan, G.; Jarvis, M. J.; Kondapally, R.; Mandal, S.; Prandoni, I.; Repetti, A.; Retana-Montenegro, E.; Schwarz, D. J.; Shulevski, A.; Wiaux, Y. (2021-04-07)
      The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It is, however, very challenging to synthesize ...

    • The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - I. Survey Description and Preliminary Data Release 

      Shimwell, T. W.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Best, P. N.; Williams, W. L.; Dijkema, T. J.; Gasperin, F. de; Hardcastle, M. J.; Heald, G. H.; Hoang, D. N.; Horneffer, A.; Intema, H.; Mahony, E. K.; Mandal, S.; Mechev, A. P.; Morabito, L.; Oonk, J. B. R.; Rafferty, D.; Retana-Montenegro, E.; Sabater, J.; Tasse, C.; Weeren, R. J. van; Brüggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Chyży, K. T.; Conway, J. E.; Haverkorn, M.; Jackson, N.; Jarvis, M. J.; McKean, J. P.; Miley, G. K.; Morganti, R.; White, G. J.; Wise, M. W.; Bemmel, I. M. van; Beck, R.; Brienza, M.; Bonafede, A.; Rivera, G. Calistro; Cassano, R.; Clarke, A. O.; Cseh, D.; Deller, A.; Drabent, A.; Driel, W. van; Engels, D.; Falcke, H.; Ferrari, C.; Fröhlich, S.; Garrett, M. A.; Harwood, J. J.; Heesen, V.; Hoeft, M.; Horellou, C.; Israel, F. P.; Kapińska, A. D.; Kunert-Bajraszewska, M.; McKay, D. J.; Mohan, N. R.; Orrú, E.; Pizzo, R. F.; Prandoni, I.; Schwarz, D. J.; Shulevski, A.; Sipior, M.; Smith, D. J. B.; Sridhar, S. S.; Steinmetz, M.; Stroe, A.; Varenius, E.; Werf, P. P. van der; Zensus, J. A.; Zwart, J. T. L. (2017-02-09)
      The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120-168 MHz imaging survey that will eventually cover the entire Northern sky. Each of the 3170 pointings will be observed for 8 hrs, which, at most declinations, is sufficient ...

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

      Shimwell, T. W.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Tasse, C.; Best, P. N.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Williams, W. L.; Botteon, A.; Drabent, A.; Mechev, A.; Shulevski, A.; Weeren, R. J. van; Bester, L.; Brüggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Callingham, J. R.; Chyży, K. T.; Conway, J. E.; Dijkema, T. J.; Duncan, K.; Gasperin, F. de; Hale, C. L.; Haverkorn, M.; Hugo, B.; Jackson, N.; Mevius, M.; Miley, G. K.; Morabito, L. K.; Morganti, R.; Offringa, A.; Oonk, J. B. R.; Rafferty, D.; Sabater, J.; Smith, D. J. B.; Schwarz, D. J.; Smirnov, O.; O'Sullivan, S. P.; Vedantham, H.; White, G. J.; Albert, J. G.; Alegre, L.; Asabere, B.; Bacon, D. J.; Bonafede, A.; Bonnassieux, E.; Brienza, M.; Bilicki, M.; Bonato, M.; Rivera, G. Calistro; Cassano, R.; Cochrane, R.; Croston, J. H.; Cuciti, V.; Dallacasa, D.; Danezi, A.; Dettmar, R. J.; Gennaro, G. Di; Edler, H. W.; Enßlin, T. A.; Emig, K. L.; Franzen, T. M. O.; García-Vergara, C.; Grange, Y. G.; Gürkan, G.; Hajduk, M.; Heald, G.; Heesen, V.; Hoang, D. N.; Hoeft, M.; Horellou, C.; Iacobelli, M.; Jamrozy, M.; Jelić, V.; Kondapally, R.; Kukreti, P.; Kunert-Bajraszewska, M.; Magliocchetti, M.; Mahatma, V.; Małek, K.; Mandal, S.; Massaro, F.; Meyer-Zhao, Z.; Mingo, B.; Mostert, R. I. J.; Nair, D. G.; Nakoneczny, S. J.; Nikiel-Wroczyński, B.; Orrú, E.; Pajdosz-Śmierciak, U.; Pasini, T.; Prandoni, I.; Piggelen, H. E. van; Rajpurohit, K.; Retana-Montenegro, E.; Riseley, C. J.; Rowlinson, A.; Saxena, A.; Schrijvers, C.; Sweijen, F.; Siewert, T. M.; Timmerman, R.; Vaccari, M.; Vink, J.; West, J. L.; Wołowska, A.; Zhang, X.; Zheng, J. (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 ...

    • Revived Fossil Plasma Sources in Galaxy Clusters 

      Mandal, S.; Intema, H. T.; Weeren, R. J. van; Shimwell, T. W.; Botteon, A.; Brunetti, G.; Gasperin, F. de; Brüggen, M.; Gennaro, G. Di; Kraft, R.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Hardcastle, M.; Tasse, C. (2020-01-28)
      It is well established that particle acceleration by shocks and turbulence in the intra-cluster medium can produce cluster-scale synchrotron emitting sources. However, the detailed physics of these particle acceleration ...

    • A snapshot of the oldest AGN feedback phases 

      Brienza, M.; Shimwell, T. W.; Gasperin, F. de; Bikmaev, I.; Bonafede, A.; Botteon, A.; Brüggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Burenin, R.; Capetti, A.; Churazov, E.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Khabibullin, I.; Lyskova, N.; R öttgering, H. J. A.; Sunyaev, R.; Weeren, R. J. van; Gastaldello, F.; Mandal, S.; Purser, S.; Simionescu, A.; Tasse, C. (2021-10-18)
      Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inject large amounts of energy into their host galaxies and surrounding environment, shaping their properties and evolution. In particular, AGN jets inflate cosmic-ray lobes, which can rise ...