A new catalogue of head-tail radio galaxies from LoTSS DR1


Abstract in English

The peculiar morphology of Head-Tail (HT) radio galaxies indicates strong interactions between the radio jets and their intra-cluster medium. We systematically search for HT radio galaxies from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey first data release (LoTSS DR1) at 144 MHz frequency. We present here a catalogue of fifty new HT radio sources, among them, five are Narrow-Angle Tailed sources (NATs) and forty-five are Wide Angle Tailed sources (WATs). NATs are characterized by tails bent in a narrow V like shape with less than a ninety-degree opening angle. For WAT radio galaxies, the opening angle between jets is more than ninety degrees which exhibit wide C like morphologies. We found that thirty-one out of fifty HT sources are associated with known galaxy clusters. The various physical properties and statistical studies of these HT sources are also presented in this paper.

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