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2018MNRAS.473.4926S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 473, 4926-4931 (2018/February-1)

Discovery of a new, 2.2-Mpc giant radio galaxy at a redshift of 0.57.

SEBASTIAN B., ISHWARA-CHANDRA C.H., JOSHI R. and WADADEKAR Y.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of one of the largest and most distant giant radio galaxy (GRG) in the Lynx field, which was discovered using deep Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) 150 MHz observations. The core is detected at 150 MHz and also in the VLA FIRST survey. Spectroscopic observations carried out using the IUCAA Girawali Observatory(IGO) provided a redshift value of 0.57. This redshift was later confirmed with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Data Release 12). The angular size of the GRG is 5.5 arcmin and at the redshift of 0.57, its linear size is 2.2 Mpc. At this high redshift, only a few radio sources are known to have such large linear size. In order to estimate the spectral index of the bridge emission as well as the spectral age of the source, we observed this source at the L band, 610 and 325-MHz bands with the GMRT. We present the spectral ageing analysis of the source that puts an upper limit of 20 Myr on the spectral age. The better resolution maps presented here as opposed to the original 150-MHz map shows evidence for a second episode of emission. We also find that the core is detected at all four frequencies with a spectral index of 0.85, which is steeper than normal, hence we speculate that the core may be a compact steep spectrum source, which makes this GRG a candidate triple-double radio galaxy.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: high-redshift - radio continuum: galaxies

Simbad objects: 4

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