Browsing Research publications by Author "Mahony, E. K."

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    • The Australia Telescope Compact Array Broad-band Backend: description and first results 

      Wilson, Warwick E.; Ferris, R. H.; Axtens, P.; Brown, A.; Davis, E.; Hampson, G.; Leach, M.; Roberts, P.; Saunders, S.; Koribalski, B. S.; Caswell, J. L.; Lenc, E.; Stevens, J.; Voronkov, M. A.; Wieringa, M. H.; Brooks, K.; Edwards, P. G.; Ekers, R. D.; Emonts, B.; Hindson, L.; Johnston, S.; Maddison, S. T.; Mahony, E. K.; Malu, S. S.; Massardi, M.; Mao, M. Y.; McConnell, D.; Norris, R. P.; Schnitzeler, D.; Subrahmanyan, R.; Urquhart, J. S.; Thompson, Mark; Wark, R. M. (2011-09)
      Here, we describe the Compact Array Broad-band Backend (CABB) and present first results obtained with the upgraded Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The 16-fold increase in observing bandwidth, from 2 x 128 to 2 x ...

    • Investigating the Unification of LOFAR-detected powerful AGN in the Boötes Field 

      Morabito, Leah K.; Williams, W. L.; Duncan, Kenneth J.; Röttgering, H.~J.~A.; Miley, George; Saxena, Aayush; Barthel, Peter; Best, Philip N.; Bruggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Chyży, K. T.; Engels, D.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Harwood, J. J.; Jarvis, Matt J.; Mahony, E. K.; Prandoni, I.; Shimwell, Timothy W.; Shulevski, Alexander; Tasse, C. (2017-08-01)
      Low radio frequency surveys are important for testing unified models of radio-loud quasars and radio galaxies. Intrinsically similar sources that are randomly oriented on the sky will have different projected linear sizes. ...

    • 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 ...

    • LOFAR 150-MHz observations of the Boötes field: Catalogue and Source Counts 

      Williams, W. L.; Van Weeren, R. J.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Best, P.; Dijkema, T. J.; Gasperin, F. de; Hardcastle, M. J.; Heald, G.; Prandoni, I.; Sabater, J.; Shimwell, T. W.; Tasse, C.; Bemmel, I. M. van; Brüggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Conway, J. E.; Enßlin, T.; Engels, D.; Falcke, H.; Ferrari, C.; Haverkorn, M.; Jackson, N.; Jarvis, M. J.; Kapinska, A. D.; Mahony, E. K.; Miley, G. K.; Morabito, L. K.; Morganti, R.; Orrú, E.; Retana-Montenegro, E.; Sridhar, S. S.; Toribio, M. C.; White, G. J.; Wise, M. W.; Zwart, J. T. L. (2016-08-11)
      We present the first wide area (19 deg$^2$), deep ($\approx120-150$ {\mu}Jy beam$^{-1}$), high resolution ($5.6 \times 7.4$ arcsec) LOFAR High Band Antenna image of the Bo\"otes field made at 130-169 MHz. This image is at ...

    • 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 window on star-forming galaxies and AGN - curved radio SEDs and IR-radio correlation at 0 < z < 2.5 

      Rivera, G. Calistro; Williams, W. L.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Duncan, K. J.; Röttgering, H.~J.~A.; Best, Philip N.; Brüggen, Marcus; Chyzy, K.T.; Conselice, C. J.; De Gasperin, Francesco; Engels, D.; Gürkan, G.; Intema, Huib T.; Jarvis, M. J.; Mahony, E. K.; Miley, G.K.; Morabito, L. K.; Prandoni, I.; Sabater, J.; Smith, D. J. B.; Tasse, C.; van der Werf, P.; White, Glenn J. (2017-08-11)
      We present a study of the low-frequency radio properties of star forming (SF) galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) up to redshift $z=2.5$. The new spectral window probed by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) allows us ...

    • LOFAR-Boötes : Properties of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.0 

      Williams, W. L.; Rivera, G. Calistro; Best, Philip N.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Röttgering, H.~J.~A.; Duncan, K. J.; De Gasperin, Francesco; Jarvis, M. J.; Miley, G.K.; Mahony, E. K.; Morabito, L. K.; Nisbet, D. M.; Prandoni, I.; Smith, D. J. B.; Tasse, C.; White, Glenn J. (2018-04-11)
      This paper presents a study of the redshift evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of the properties of their galaxy hosts in the Boötes field. To achieve this we match low-frequency radio sources ...

    • LOFAR/H-ATLAS: A deep low-frequency survey of the Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole field 

      Hardcastle, M. J.; Gürkan, G.; Weeren, R. J. van; Williams, W. L.; Best, P. N.; Gasperin, F. de; Rafferty, D. A.; Read, S. C.; Sabater, J.; Shimwell, T. W.; Smith, D. J. B.; Tasse, C.; Bourne, N.; Brienza, M.; Brüggen, M.; Brunetti, G.; Chyży, K. T.; Conway, J.; Dunne, L.; Eales, S. A.; Maddox, S. J.; Jarvis, M. J.; Mahony, E. K.; Morganti, R.; Prandoni, I.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Valiante, E.; White, G. J. (2016-10-21)
      We present LOFAR High-Band Array (HBA) observations of the Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole survey area. The survey we have carried out, consisting of four pointings covering around 142 square degrees of sky in the ...

    • Search and modelling of remnant radio galaxies in the LOFAR Lockman Hole field 

      Brienza, M.; Godfrey, L.; Morganti, R.; Prandoni, I.; Harwood, J.; Mahony, E. K.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Murgia, Matteo; Röttgering, H.~J.~A.; Shimwell, Timothy W.; Shulevski, Aleksander (2017-10-20)
      The phase of radio galaxy evolution after the jets have switched off, often referred to as the remnant phase, is poorly understood and very few sources in this phase are known. In this work we present an extensive search ...