* Astronomy

Title: Discovery of a suspected giant radio galaxy with the KAT-7 array
Author: S. Colafrancesco, N. Mhlahlo, T. Jarrett, N. Oozeer, P. Marchegiani

We detect a new suspected giant radio galaxy (GRG) discovered by KAT-7. The GRG core is identified with the WISE source J013313.50-130330.5, an extragalactic source based on its infrared colours and consistent with a misaligned AGN-type spectrum at z~0.3. The multi- spectral energy distribution (SED) of the object associated to the GRG core shows a synchrotron peak at ~10^14 Hz consistent with the SED of a radio galaxy blazar-like core.

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