George Miley

Distant Radio Galaxies and their Environments (2008)

Miley, George, De Breuck, Carlos

We review the properties and nature of luminous high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs, z > 2) and the environments in which they are located. HzRGs have several distinct constituents which interact...

Gigahertz Peaked Spectrumsources As Cosmological Probes (2007)

Ignas Snellen, Richard Schilizzi, George Miley

. We discovered that the optical to near-infrared properties of Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) galaxies are consistent with them having old stellar populations, with little or no contamination from...

Metal-Enriched Gaseous Halos around Distant Radio Galaxies: Clues to Feedback in Galaxy Formation (2007)

Reuland, Michiel, Van Breugel, Wil, De Vries, Wim, Dopita, Michael A., Dey, Arjun, Miley, George, ...

We present the results of an optical and near-IR spectroscopic study of giant nebular emission-line halos associated with three z > 3 radio galaxies, 4C 41.17, 4C 60.07, and B2 0902+34. Previous deep...

The Massive Hosts of Radio Galaxies Across Cosmic Time (2007)

Seymour, Nick, Stern, Daniel, De Breuck, Carlos, Vernet, Joel, Rettura, Alessandro, Dickinson, Mark, ...

We present the results of a comprehensive Spitzer survey of 69 radio galaxies across 1

Metal enriched gaseous halos around distant radio galaxies: Clues to feedback in galaxy formation (2007)

Reuland, Michiel, Van Breugel, Wil, De Vries, Wim, Dopita, Michael A., Dey, Arjun, Miley, George, ...

We present the results of an optical and near-IR spectroscopic study of giant nebular emission line halos associated with three z > 3 radio galaxies, 4C 41.17, 4C 60.07 and B2 0902+34. Previous deep...

An optical-IR jet in 3C133 (2006)

Floyd, David J. E., Laing, Robert, Chiaberge, Marco, Perlman, Eric, Sparks, William, Macchetto, Duccio, ...

We report the discovery of a new optical-IR synchrotron jet in the radio galaxy 3C133 from our HST/NICMOS snapshot survey. The jet and eastern hotspot are well resolved, and visible at both optical...

Optical and Near-IR Imaging of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources - The K-z diagram of radio and optically selected galaxies (2005)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Stanford, Adam, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stern, Daniel

We present optical and/or near-IR images of 128 ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. Roughly half of the objects are identified in the optical images (R 94% are detected at K5). The major axes...

Spectroscopy of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources (2005)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Stern, Daniel, Miley, George, De Vries, Wim, ...

We present optical spectroscopy of 62 objects selected from several samples of ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. 46 of these are from our primary catalog, consisting of 669 sources with radio...

Very high-resolution radio observations of HzRGs (2005)

Perez-Torres, Miguel A., De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Miley, George

We report on first results of an ongoing effort to image a small sample of high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) with milliarcsecond (mas) resolution, using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI)...

A multi-wavelength study of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942 (2005)

De Breuck, Carlos, Bertoldi, Frank, Carilli, Chris, Omont, Alain, Venemans, Bram, Rottgering, Huub, ...

We present a 1.2 mm (250 GHz) map obtained with MAMBO on the IRAM 30m telescope of the central 25 arcmin^2 of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942. The map reaches a...

Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena (2005)

Frederick Osman, Peter Evans, Peter Toups, Heinrich Hora, Robert Stening, George Miley

Computations are to be performed using the laser driven inertial fusion energy option based on volume ignition with the natural adiabatic self-similarity compression and expansion hydrodynamics [1]....

Clustering and Proto-Clusters in the Early Universe (2004)

Rottgering, Huub, De Breuck, Carlos, Daddi, Emanuele, Kurk, Jaron, Miley, George, Pentericci, Laura, ...

The clustering properties of clusters, galaxies and AGN as a function of redshift are briefly discussed. It appears that extremely red objects at z ~ 1, and objects with J-K > 1.7 and photometric...

A multi-wavelength study of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942 (2004)

De Breuck, Carlos, Bertoldi, Frank, Carilli, Chris, Omont, Alain, Venemans, Bram, Rottgering, Huub, ...

We present a 1.2 mm (250 GHz) map obtained with MAMBO on the IRAM 30m telescope of the central 25 arcmin^2 of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942. The map reaches a...

A multi-wavelength study of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942 (2004)

De Breuck, Carlos, Bertoldi, Frank, Carilli, Chris, Omont, Alain, Venemans, Bram, Rottgering, Huub, ...

We present a 1.2 mm (250 GHz) map obtained with MAMBO on the IRAM 30m telescope of the central 25 arcmin^2 of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942. The map reaches a...

A multi-wavelength study of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942 (2004)

De Breuck, Carlos, Bertoldi, Frank, Carilli, Chris, Omont, Alain, Venemans, Bram, Rottgering, Huub, ...

We present a 1.2 mm (250 GHz) map obtained with MAMBO on the IRAM 30m telescope of the central 25 arcmin^2 of the proto-cluster surrounding the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942. The map reaches a...

Fields in laser ablated plasmas generalized to degenerate electrons and to Fermi energy in nuclei with change to quark-gluon plasma (2004)

Miley, George, Osman, Frederick, Hammerling, Peter, Quantum Resonance (Firm), ...

The studies of laser ablation have lead to a new theory of nuclei, endothermic nuclei generation and quark-gluon plasmas. The surface of ablated plasma expanding into vacuum after high power laser...

Fields in laser ablated plasmas generalized to degenerate electrons and to Fermi energy in nuclei with change to quark-gluon plasma (2004)

Miley, George, Osman, Frederick, Hammerling, Peter, Quantum Resonance (Firm), ...

The studies of laser ablation have lead to a new theory of nuclei, endothermic nuclei generation and quark-gluon plasmas. The surface of ablated plasma expanding into vacuum after high power laser...

Proto-clusters associated with radio galaxies from z = 2 to z = 4 (2003)

Kurk, Jaron, Venemans, Bram, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Pentericci, Laura

We have carried out narrow band imaging targeted at the Lya line of emitters associated with radio galaxies at 2 < z < 5. Subsequent spectroscopy has confirmed the identity of > 120 Lya emitters and...

Giant Lya nebulae associated with high redshift radio galaxies (2003)

Reuland, Michiel, Van Breugel, Wil, Roettgering, Huub, De Vries, Wim, Stanford, S. A., Dey, Arjun, ...

We report deep Keck narrow-band Lya images of the luminous z > 3 radio galaxies 4C 41.17, 4C 60.07, and B2 0902+34. The images show giant, 100-200 kpc scale emission line nebulae, centered on these...

Laser-plasma interaction for application to fusion energy (2003)

Osman, Frederick, Evans, Peter, Toups, Peter, Stenning, Robert, ...

Computations are to be performed using the laser driven inertial fusion energy option based on volume ignition with the natural adiabatic self-similarity compression and expansion hydrodynamics (Hora...

Optical and Near-IR Imaging of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources - The K-z diagram of radio and optically selected galaxies (2001)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Stanford, Adam, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stern, Daniel

We present optical and/or near-IR images of 128 ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. Roughly half of the objects are identified in the optical images (R 94% are detected at K5). The major axes...

Optical and Near-IR Imaging of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources - The K-z diagram of radio and optically selected galaxies (2001)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Stanford, Adam, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stern, Daniel

We present optical and/or near-IR images of 128 ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. Roughly half of the objects are identified in the optical images (R 94% are detected at K5). The major axes...

Optical and Near-IR Imaging of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources - The K-z diagram of radio and optically selected galaxies (2001)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Stanford, Adam, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stern, Daniel

We present optical and/or near-IR images of 128 ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. Roughly half of the objects are identified in the optical images (R 94% are detected at K5). The major axes...

Spectroscopy of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources (2000)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Stern, Daniel, Miley, George, De Vries, Wim, ...

We present optical spectroscopy of 62 objects selected from several samples of ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. 46 of these are from our primary catalog, consisting of 669 sources with radio...

A Statistical Study of Emission Lines from High Redshift Radio Galaxies (2000)

De Breuck, Carlos, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Van Breugel, Wil, Best, Philip

We have compiled a sample of 165 radio galaxies from the literature to study the properties of the extended emission line regions and their interaction with the radio source over a large range of...

A study of young radio-loud AGN using space-VLBI (2000)

Snellen, Ignas, Tschager, Wolfgang, Schilizzi, Richard, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George

Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources form a key element in the study of the onset and evolution of radio-loud AGN, since they are most likely the young counterparts of extended radio sources. Here...

A Sample of 669 Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources to Find High Redshift Radio Galaxies (2000)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George

Since radio sources with Ultra Steep Spectra (USS; alpha 10 mJy and covers virtually the entire sky outside the Galactic plane (|b|>15). For our 2 largest samples, covering declination > -35, we...

On the evolution of young radio-loud AGN (2000)

Snellen, Ignas, Schilizzi, Richard, Miley, George, De Bruyn, Ger, Bremer, Malcolm, Rottgering, Huub

This paper describes an investigation of the early evolution of extragalactic radio sources using samples of faint and bright Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) and Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio...

Limits on the Spatial Extent of AGN Measured with the Fine Guidance Sensors of the HST (2000)

Hook, Richard N., Schreier, Ethan J., Miley, George

The optical structure of several AGN has been studied using the Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The FGSs are interferometric devices which can resolve structure on...

Spectroscopy of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources (2000)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Stern, Daniel, Miley, George, De Vries, Wim, ...

We present optical spectroscopy of 62 objects selected from several samples of ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. 46 of these are from our primary catalog, consisting of 669 sources with radio...

Spectroscopy of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources (2000)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Stern, Daniel, Miley, George, De Vries, Wim, ...

We present optical spectroscopy of 62 objects selected from several samples of ultra steep spectrum (USS) radio sources. 46 of these are from our primary catalog, consisting of 669 sources with radio...

Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio Galaxies at Hy Redshifts (1999)

Van Breugel, Wil, De Breuck, Carlos, Stanford, Adam, Röttgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stern, Daniel, ...

Radio sources have traditionally provided convenient beacons for probing the early Universe. Hy Spinrad was among the first of the tenacious breed of observers who would attempt to obtain optical...

VLT Spectroscopy of the z=4.11 Radio Galaxy TN J1338-1942 (1999)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Minniti, Dante, Miley, George, Rottgering, Huub, Stanford, S. A., ...

We present optical, infrared and radio data of the z=4.11 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942, including an intermediate resolution spectrum obtained with FORS1on the VLT Antu telescope. TN J1338-1942 was the...

A Radio Galaxy at z=5.19 (1999)

Van Breugel, Wil, De Breuck, Carlos, Stanford, S. A., Stern, Dan, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George

We report the discovery of the most distant known AGN, the radio galaxy TN J0924-2201 at z = 5.19. The radio source was selected from a new sample of ultra-steep spectrum (USS) sources, has an...

The Highest Redshift Radio Galaxy Known in the Southern Hemisphere (1998)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Carilli, Chris

We present the discovery of a z=4.13 galaxy TN J1338-1942, the most distant radio galaxy in the southern hemisphere known to date. The source was selected from a sample of Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS;...

Very High Redshift Radio Galaxies (1998)

Van Breugel, Wil, De Breuck, Carlos, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stanford, Adam

High redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) provide unique targets for the study of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters at very high redshifts. We discuss how efficient HzRG...

Searches for High Redshift Radio Galaxies (1997)

De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, Miley, George

We have started a search for High Redshift Radio Galaxies (HZRGs) in an area covering 7 sr by selecting a sample of Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS) sources with a low flux density cut-off S(1400 MHz) > 10...