2025/12/15 by Sasmal, Tapan K., Bera, Soumen, Pal, Sabyasachi +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.13048
openalex publication_date 2025/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/12/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The head--tail (HT) morphology of radio galaxies is seen for a class of radio sources where the primary lobes are being bent in the intercluster weather due to strong interactions between the radio jets and their respective intracluster medium. A systematic search has been carried out for new HT radio galaxies from the Very Large Array Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters survey database at 1400 MHz. Here, we present a catalog of 717 new HT sources, among which 287 are narrow-angle tail (NAT) sources whose opening angle between the two lobes is less than 90^∘, and 430 are wide-angle tail (WAT) whose opening angle between the two lobes is greater than 90^∘. NAT radio sources are characterized by tails bent in a narrow ``V''-like shape; the jet bending in the case of WAT radio galaxies are such that the WATs exhibit wide ``C''-like morphologies. Optical counterparts are found for 359 HT sources. We report HT sources with luminosity ranges 1038 \lesssim L1.4 GHz \lesssim 1045 \mathrmerg s-1 and redshifts up to 2.01. The various physical properties of these HT sources are mentioned here. Some statistical studies have been done for this large number of newly discovered HT sources.