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The cluster environments of radio-loud AGN
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Radio-loud AGN play an important role in galaxy evolution. We need to understand their properties, and the processes that affect their behaviour in order to model galaxy formation and development. We here present preliminary ...
An X-ray survey of the 2 Jy sample-I : Is there an accretion mode dichotomy in radio-loud AGN?
(2014-05-01)
We carry out a systematic study of the X-ray emission from the active nuclei of the 0.02 < z< 0.7 2 Jy sample, using Chandra and XMM-Newton observations.We combine our results with those from mid-infrared, optical emission-line ...
The impact of a young radio galaxy : Clues from the cosmic ray electron population
(2014-04-01)
In the framework of hierarchical structure formation, active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback shapes the galaxy luminosity function. Low luminosity, galaxy-scale double radio sources are ideal targets to investigate the ...
The particle content of low-power radio galaxies in groups and clusters
(2014-03-01)
The synchrotron-radiating particles and magnetic fields in low-power radio galaxies (including most nearby cluster-centre sources), if at equipartition, can provide only a small fraction of the total internal energy density ...
Spectral ageing in the lobes of FR-II radio galaxies : New methods of analysis for broad-band radio data
(2013-11-01)
The broad-bandwidth capabilities of next generation telescopes such as the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) mean that the spectrum of any given source varies significantly within the bandwidth of any given observation. ...
Mass entrainment and turbulence-driven acceleration of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in Centaurus A
(2013-10)
Observations of the FR I radio galaxy Centaurus A in radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray bands provide evidence for lepton acceleration up to several TeV and clues about hadron acceleration to tens of EeV. Synthesising the available ...
Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nucleus : is there a link between luminosity and cluster environment?
(2013-06-20)
We present here the first results from the Chandra ERA (Environments of Radio-loud AGN) Large Project, characterizing the cluster environments of a sample of 26 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z similar to 0.5 ...
Episodic radio galaxies J0116-4722 and J1158+2621 : Can we constrain the quiescent phase of nuclear activity?
(2013-04-11)
We present multifrequency radio observations of two well-known episodic Fanaroff-Railey type II (FR II) radio galaxies (J0116-4722 and J1158+2621) and a detailed investigation of the life cycle of episodic radio galaxies ...
Spectral properties of X-ray binaries in Centaurus A
(2013-04-01)
We present a spectral investigation of X-ray binaries (XBs) in NGC 5128 (Cen A), using six 100 ks Chandra observations taken over two months in 2007. We divide our sample into thermally and non-thermally dominated states ...
Gas sloshing and radio galaxy dynamics in the core of the 3C 449 group
(2013-02-10)
We present results from a 140 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the hot gas around the canonical FR I radio galaxy 3C 449. An earlier, shorter 30 ks Chandra observation of the group gas showed an unusual entropy distribution ...