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      Discovery of 178 Giant Radio Galaxies in 1059 deg\(^2\) of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey at 888 MHz

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          We report the results of a visual inspection of images of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) in search of extended radio galaxies (ERG) that reach or exceed linear sizes on the order of one Megaparsec. We searched a contiguous area of 1059deg\(^2\) from RA\(_{\rm J}\)=20\(^h\)20\(^m\) to 06\(^h\)20\(^m\), and \(-50^{\circ}<\rm{Dec}_J<-40^{\circ}\), which is covered by deep multi-band optical images of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and in which previously only three ERGs larger than 1Mpc had been reported. For over 1800 radio galaxy candidates inspected, our search in optical and infrared images resulted in hosts for 1440 ERG, for which spectroscopic and photometric redshifts from various references were used to convert their largest angular size (LAS) to projected linear size (LLS). This resulted in 178 newly discovered giant radio sources (GRS) with LLS\(>\)1Mpc, of which 18 exceed 2Mpc and the largest one is 3.4Mpc. Their redshifts range from 0.02 to \(\sim\)2.0, but only 10 of the 178 new GRS have spectroscopic redshifts. For the 146 host galaxies the median \(r\)-band magnitude and redshift are 20.9 and 0.64, while for the 32 quasars or candidates these are 19.7 and 0.75. Merging the six most recent large compilations of GRS results in 458 GRS larger than 1Mpc, so we were able to increase this number by \(\sim39\%\) to now 636.

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          16 November 2021
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          2111.08807
          9cdaa917-7489-4dfb-97f1-803fe77e0da2

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          27 pages, 8 figures, two tables. Published in Galaxies, vol. 9, 99, special issue with contributions from the conference "A New Window on the Radio Emission from Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters and Cosmic Web: Current Status and Perspectives" see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxies/special_issues/nonthermal_galaxycluster. An ASCII version of Table 2 is included
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          Galaxy astrophysics
          Galaxy astrophysics

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