LOFAR 天空中的 Planck 星系团 V. LoTSS-DR2：低频下的质量-射电晕功率相关性
The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky V. LoTSS-DR2: Mass - radio halo power correlation at low frequency
V. Cuciti, R. Cassano, M. Sereno, G. Brunetti, A. Botteon, T. W. Shimwell, L. Bruno, F. Gastaldello, M. Rossetti, X. Zhang, A. Simionescu, M. Brüggen, R. J. van… 展开作者
V. Cuciti, R. Cassano, M. Sereno, G. Brunetti, A. Botteon, T. W. Shimwell, L. Bruno, F. Gastaldello, M. Rossetti, X. Zhang, A. Simionescu, M. Brüggen, R. J. van Weeren, A. Jones, H. Akamatsu, A. Bonafede, F. De Gasperin, G. Di Gennaro, T. Pasini, H. J. A. Röttgering
Many galaxy clusters show diffuse cluster-scale emission in the form of radio halos, showing that magnetic fields and relativistic electrons are mixed in with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). There is general agreement that the origin of radio halos is connected to turbulence, generated during cluster mergers. Statistical studies of large samples of galaxy clusters in the radio band have the potential to unveil the connection between the properties of radio halos and the mass and dynamics of the host clusters. Previous studies have been limited to massive clusters and based on a small number of radio halos. The aim of this paper is to investigate the scaling relation between the radio power of radio halos and the mass of the host clusters at low frequencies and down to lower cluster masses. We analysed the clusters from the second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev Zel'dovich sources that lie within the 5634 sq deg covered by the second Data Release of the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey. We derived the correlation between the radio power and the mass of the host clusters and we investigated the distribution of clusters without radio halos with respect to the correlation. We use X-ray observations to classify the dynamical state of clusters and investigate its role on the power of radio halos. We found a correlation between the power of radio halos at 150 MHz and the mass of the host clusters down to 3e14 Msun. This correlation has a large scatter, part of which can be attributed to the different dynamical states of host clusters. We used two statistical test to show that the distribution of clusters with and without (upper limits) radio halos in the mass-radio power diagram is not compatible with a single correlation and that it is also not compatible with clusters being uniformly distributed below an upper envelope constituted by the correlation.
The Faraday Rotation Measure Grid of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Data Release 2
法拉第旋转测度（RM）星表，或称RM网格，是研究宇宙磁性的宝贵资源。利用LOFAR两米巡天（LoTSS）的第二次数据发布（DR 2），我们制作了一个包含2461个河外高精度RM值的目录，这些值分布在5720度$^{2}$的天空中（对应于$\sim$ 0.43度$^{-2}$的偏振源面数密度）。线性极化和RM特性是使用RM合成从Stokes $Q$和$U$通道图像中推导出来的，角分辨率为20“，频率范围为120至168 MHz，通道带宽为97.6 kHz。发现偏振的总强度源（$>1$ mJy束$^{-1}$）的分数为$\sim$ 0.2%。中值探测阈值为0.6毫焦束$^{-1}$（$8σ_{QU}$），中值RM不确定度为0.06 rad m $^{-2}$（尽管在电离层RM校正后，系统不确定度可能高达0.3 rad m $^{-2}$）。检测到的源的偏振度的中值为1.8%，范围为0.05%至31%。与cm波长RM的比较表明LoTSS检测中法拉第复杂性最小，使其成为RM网格研究的理想来源。88%的源获得了宿主星系的识别，以及79%的红移（光度和光谱），中值红移为0.6。当前目录的重点是可靠性而不是完整性，我们预计LoTSS RM Grid的未来版本将具有更高的面数密度。此外，还发现了25颗双星，主要是通过它们的高度线性偏振。
Galaxy clusters in the LoTSS-DR3: Catalogues and detection pipeline for diffuse radio emission
INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA)（意大利国家天体物理研究所射电天文研究所）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá di Bologna（博洛尼亚大学物理与天文系）；INAF - IASF Milano（意大利国家天体物理研究所米兰天文台）；Thüringer Landessternwarte（图林根州立天文台）；Hamburger Sternwarte, University of Hamburg（汉堡大学汉堡天文台）
Combined LOFAR-uGMRT analysis of the diffuse radio emission in the massive clusters Abell 773 and Abell 1351
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) - Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA)（意大利国家天体物理研究所-射电天文研究所）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia (DIFA), Università di Bologna（博洛尼亚大学物理与天文学系）；Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF)（意大利国家天体物理研究所-空间天体物理学与宇宙物理学研究所）；University of Kashmir（克什米尔大学）；Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg（汉堡天文台，汉堡大学）
Limits and challenges of the detection of cluster-scale diffuse radio emission at high redshift: The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) in LoTSS-DR2
The LOFAR view of intergalactic magnetic fields with giant radio galaxies
巨射电星系（Giant Radio Galaxies，简称GRG）是一种物理上巨大的射电源，其辐射范围远远超出其所在星系的环境。它们的偏振特性受到在Mpc尺度上渗透星系际介质的约束不良的磁场的影响。现在可以用LOFAR对这类射电源进行低频（$<$ 200 MHz）极化研究。在这里，我们调查的偏振特性和法拉第旋转测量（RM）的目录中检测到的GRG的LoTSS。这是第一次对根据物理尺寸选择的射电星系进行大样本低频偏振研究。我们探索了它们的低密度环境的磁离子特性，并利用它们射电瓣的法拉第旋转特性探测星系际磁场。我们使用RM合成在120-168 MHz频段搜索极化发射，并推导出RM和分数极化的每个检测到的源组件。我们研究了1.4 GHz和144 MHz之间的去极化使用NVSS的图像。从240个GRG的样本中，我们检测到37个源的偏振，所有的总通量密度超过56毫焦耳。在1.4 GHz和144 MHz下检测到的GRG的分数极化与少量法拉第去极化（法拉第色散$<$ 0.3 rad m $^{-2}$）一致。我们的分析表明，叶扩展到一个低密度（$<10^{-5}$ cm $^{-3}$）的局部环境中渗透的弱磁场（$<$ 0.1 $μ$ G）与波动的规模为3至25千秒差距。前景星系团的存在似乎影响偏振探测率高达2 R $_{500}$。在一般情况下，这项工作证明了LOFAR的能力，以量化的稀薄环境中…
Single- and double-headed odd radio circles in the LOFAR surveys
Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg（汉堡天文台，汉堡大学）；Thüringer Landessternwarte（图林根州立天文台）；Universidad de Guanajuato（瓜纳华托大学）；Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München（慕尼黑大学物理学院大学天文台）；Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago（芝加哥大学天体物理学系）；ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy（荷兰射电天文研究所 ASTRON）；Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学安东·潘内克天文研究所）；Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire（赫特福德郡大学物理、天文与数学系）；INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia（意大利国家天体物理研究所射电天文研究所）
The Treble Clef radio phoenix and its old nonthermal filaments
INAF - IRA（意大利国家天体物理研究所）；Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian（哈佛-史密松天体物理中心）；Space Research Institute (IKI)（空间研究所）；Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics（马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所）；Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford（牛津大学理论物理鲁道夫·派尔斯中心）；Hamburger Sternwarte（汉堡天文台）
How the cool-core population transitions from galaxy groups to massive clusters: A comparison of the largest Magneticum simulation with eROSITA, XMM-Newton, Chandra and LOFAR observations
Resurging from the ashes: A spectral study of seven candidate revived radio fossils in nearby low-mass galaxy clusters
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) - Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA)（意大利国家天体物理研究所-射电天文研究所）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia (DIFA), Università di Bologna（博洛尼亚大学物理与天文学系）；Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica (IASF)（意大利国家天体物理研究所-空间天体物理学与宇宙物理学研究所）；Thüringer Landessternwarte（图林根州天文台）；Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg（汉堡大学汉堡天文台）；Center for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies, Rhodes University（罗德斯大学射电天文技术与方法中心）
The radio source in Abell 980: A Detached-Double-Double Radio Galaxy?
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai（孟买大学基础科学卓越中心）；Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University（萨维特里巴伊·普勒浦那大学物理系）；INAF-Padova Astronomical Observatory（帕多瓦天文台）
