MIGHTEE: Are giant radio galaxies more common than we thought?

Delhaize, J., Heywood, I., Prescott, M., Jarvis, M. J., Delvecchio, I., Whittam, I. H., White, S. V., Hardcastle, M. J., Hale, C. L., Afonso, J., Ao, Y., Brienza, M., Brueggen, M., Collier, J. D., Daddi, E., Glowacki, M., Maddox, N., Morabito, L. K., Prandoni, I., Randriamanakoto, Z., Sekhar, S., An, Fangxia, Adams, N. J., Blyth, S., Bowler, R. A. A., Leeuw, L., Marchetti, L., Randriamampandry, S. M., Thorat, K., Seymour, N., Smirnov, O., Taylor, A. R., Tasse, C. and Vaccari, M. (2020) MIGHTEE: Are giant radio galaxies more common than we thought? ISSN 0035-8711
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We report the discovery of two new giant radio galaxies (GRGs) using the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. Both GRGs were found within a 1 deg^2 region inside the COSMOS field. They have redshifts of z=0.1656 and z=0.3363 and physical sizes of 2.4Mpc and 2.0Mpc, respectively. Only the cores of these GRGs were clearly visible in previous high resolution VLA observations, since the diffuse emission of the lobes was resolved out. However, the excellent sensitivity and uv coverage of the new MeerKAT telescope allowed this diffuse emission to be detected. The GRGs occupy a unpopulated region of radio power - size parameter space. Based on a recent estimate of the GRG number density, the probability of finding two or more GRGs with such large sizes at z
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Uncontrolled Keywords astro-ph.GA
Date Deposited 14 Nov 2024 10:34
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