MeerKAT uncovers the physics of an odd radio circle

Ray P. Norris; J. D. Collier; Roland M. Crocker; Ian Heywood; Peter Macgregor; L. Rudnick; Stas Shabala; Heinz Andernach; Elisabete Da Cunha; Jayanne English; Miroslav Filipović; Bärbel S. Koribalski; Kieran Luken; Aaron Robotham; Srikrishna Sekhar; Jessica E. Thorne; Tessa Vernstrom

doi:10.1093/mnras/stac701

MeerKAT uncovers the physics of an odd radio circle

Ray P. Norris^*, J. D. Collier, Roland M. Crocker, Ian Heywood, Peter Macgregor, L. Rudnick, Stas Shabala, Heinz Andernach, Elisabete Da Cunha, Jayanne English, Miroslav Filipović, Bärbel S. Koribalski, Kieran Luken, Aaron Robotham, Srikrishna Sekhar, Jessica E. Thorne, Tessa Vernstrom

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Odd radio circles (ORCs) are recently-discovered faint diffuse circles of radio emission, of unknown cause, surrounding galaxies at moderate redshift (z ∼0.2-0.6). Here, we present detailed new MeerKAT radio images at 1284 MHz of the first ORC, originally discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, with higher resolution (6 arcsec) and sensitivity (∼2.4 μJy/beam). In addition to the new images, which reveal a complex internal structure consisting of multiple arcs, we also present polarization and spectral index maps. Based on these new data, we consider potential mechanisms that may generate the ORCs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1300-1316
Number of pages	17
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	513
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac701
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2022

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Norris, R. P., Collier, J. D., Crocker, R. M., Heywood, I., Macgregor, P., Rudnick, L., Shabala, S., Andernach, H., Da Cunha, E., English, J., Filipović, M., Koribalski, B. S., Luken, K., Robotham, A., Sekhar, S., Thorne, J. E., & Vernstrom, T. (2022). MeerKAT uncovers the physics of an odd radio circle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(1), 1300-1316. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac701

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