23–27 Jan 2023
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Asia/Kolkata timezone

Miscellaneous radio galaxies from LOFAR survey

Not scheduled
20m
Meghnad Saha Auditorium (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Meghnad Saha Auditorium

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700064, West Bengal, India.

Speaker

Tapan Sasmal

Description

Our work aims to identify the miscellaneous radio galaxies (MRGs) using the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey First Data Release (LoTSS DR1) at 144 MHz. The miscellaneous radio sources are very rare because of their peculiar morpological radio structure, which does not match with the known classes of radio sources. We find only four such MRGs by manually examining 18,500 samples. The peculiar morphology is not found in other radio frequencies 1400, 150, and 325 MHz. We estimate different physical parameters like spectral index, radio luminosity, and radio power of these sources. Among the four MRGs, J1428+4556 has the highest linear size of 3.972 Mpc and can be considered a giant radio galaxy. We also try to present the known galaxy cluster association with these MRGs. We find that the MRGs are associated with at least one galaxy cluster within 1 Mpc radius. The basic parameters such as mass, radius, and richness of the clusters are also noted.

Author

Tapan Sasmal

Co-authors

Dr Soumen Bera (Jadavpur University) Dr Soumen Mondal (Jadavpur University)

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