Cluster Winds Blow along Supercluster Axes
Abstract
Within Abell galaxy clusters containing wide-angle tailed radio sources, there is evidence of a ``prevailing wind'' which directs the WAT jets. We study the alignment of WAT jets and nearby clusters to test the idea that this wind may be a fossil of drainage along large-scale supercluster axes. We also test this idea with a study of the alignment of WAT jets and supercluster axes. Statistical test neighbours indicate no alignment of WAT jets towards nearest clusters, but do indicate approximately 98% confidence in alignment with the long axis of the supercluster in which the cluster lies. We find a preferred scale for such superclusters of order 25 Mpc .
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9808018,
title = {Cluster Winds Blow along Supercluster Axes},
author = {Dmitri Novikov and Adrian Melott and Brian Wilhite and Michael Kaufman and Jack Burns and Christopher Miller and David Batuski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9808018},
year = {2009}
}
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Latex, 5 pages, with 5 postscript figures. To be published in MNRAS. Slight revisions to coincide with journal text. Linked to color image at http://kusmos.phsx.ukans.edu/~melott/images/A2634SUW.jpg