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Press Release on Citizen Science Discoveries

RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory, India

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Press Release at https://radathomeindia.org/press-release

Media Contact: RADatHomeIndia@gmail.com

Science Contact: Dr. Ananda Hota & Dr Pratik Dabhade

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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1531

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The Discovery Team

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado,

Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit. MNRAS, 2025

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RAD@home: Nationwide Inter-University citizen science research collaboratory. First in India, since 15th April 2013

LOFAR, Netherlands

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit. MNRAS, 2025

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Optical RGB image from the Legacy Surveys, overlaid with radio emission in red from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), showing the Odd Radio Circle (ORC) RAD J131346.9+500320

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit. MNRAS, 2025

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LOFAR radio images of the newly discovered objects..

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit. MNRAS, 2025

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Artistic animation of the ORC RAD J131346.9+500320

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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1531

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit. MNRAS, 2025