Cen A MWA 154MHz image

We focus our investigation on the northern transition region, where energy is transported from the ~5kpc (~5-arcmin) scales of the northern inner lobe (NIL) to the ~30kpc (~30-arcmin) scales of the northern middle lobe (NML). Our Murchison Widefield Array observations at 154MHz and our Parkes radio telescope observations at 2.3GHz show diffuse radio emission connecting the NIL to the NML, in agreement with previous Australia Telescope Compact Array observations at 1.4GHz.

Comparison of these radio data with our wide-field optical emission-line images show the relationship between the NML radio emission and the ionized filaments that extend north from the NIL, and reveal a new ionized filament to the east, possibly associated with a galactic wind. Our deep optical images show clear evidence for a bipolar outflow from the central galaxy extending to intermediate scales, despite the non-detection of a southern radio counterpart to the NML.