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Theoretical Implications of Diffuse Non-Thermal Emission from Clusters of Galaxies

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A short review on theoretical implications of non-thermal emission (radio, extreme ultraviolet, high energy X-ray) from the intra-cluster medium is given. The origin of cluster radio halos and cluster radio relics is discussed within the framework of a network of processes producing a non-thermal electron population. Emphasis is given to the role of old, remnant, presently invisible relativistic plasma released by former radio galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0001433,
  title  = {Theoretical Implications of Diffuse Non-Thermal Emission from Clusters of Galaxies},
  author = {Torsten A. Ensslin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0001433},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, uses newpasp.sty, invited talk at IAU 199 `The Universe at Low Radio Frequencies' in Pune, India, 1999