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We investigate theoretical models for the radio halo and hard X-ray (HXR) excess in the Coma galaxy cluster. Time-independent and time-dependent re-acceleration models for relativistic electrons have been carried out to study the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ping-Hung Kuo , Chorng-Yuan Hwang , Wing-Huen Ip

Clusters of galaxies are sites of acceleration of charged particles and sources of non-thermal radiation. We report on new constraints on the population of cosmic rays in the Intra Cluster Medium (ICM) obtained via radio observations of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Brunetti , T. Venturi , D. Dallacasa , R. Cassano , K. Dolag , S. Giacintucci , G. Setti

The surface brightness produced by synchrotron radiation in Clusters of Galaxies with a radio-halo sets a degenerate constraint on the magnetic field strength, the relativistic electron density and their spatial distributions. Using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Colafrancesco , P. Marchegiani , G. C. Perola

The underlying physics of giant radio halos and mini halos in galaxy clusters is still an open question, which becomes more pressing with the growing number of detections. In this paper, we explore the possibility that radio-emitting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Fabio Zandanel , Christoph Pfrommer , Francisco Prada

The thermal plasma of galaxy clusters lost most of its information on how structure formation proceeded as a result of dissipative processes. In contrast, non-equilibrium distributions of cosmic rays (CR) preserve the information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten A. Ensslin , Volker Springel

We study the synchrotron radio emission from extra-planar regions of star forming galaxies. We use ideal magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of a rotating Milky Way-type disk galaxy with distributed star formation sites for three star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Aditi Vijayan , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov

We present results from {\gamma}-ray observations of the Coma cluster incorporating 6 years of Fermi-LAT data and the newly released {\emph{Pass 8}} event-level analysis. Our analysis of the region reveals low-significance residual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-10 LAT Collaboration , Y. Rephaeli

We wish to constrain the cosmic-ray proton (CRp) population in galaxy clusters. By hadronic interactions with the thermal gas of the intra-cluster medium (ICM), the CRp produce gamma-rays for which we develop an analytic formalism to deduce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten A. Ensslin

We present an MHD simulation of the emergence of a radio minihalo in a galaxy cluster core in a "secondary" model, where the source of the synchrotron-emitting electrons is hadronic interactions between cosmic-ray protons with the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 John ZuHone , Gianfranco Brunetti , Simona Giacintucci , Maxim Markevitch

Complementary views of galaxy clusters in the radio synchrotron, hard X-ray inverse Compton, and high-energy gamma-ray regimes are critical in calibrating them as high-precision cosmological probes. We present predictions for scaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Pfrommer

The Intra-Cluster Medium is characterized by thermal emission, and by the presence of large scale magnetic fields. In some clusters of galaxies a diffuse non-thermal emission is also present, located at the cluster center and named radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Giovannini , A. Bonafede , L. Feretti , F. Govoni , M. Murgia , F. Ferrari , G. Monti

We present new measurements of the diffuse radio emission from the Coma cluster of galaxies at 1.4 GHz using the Effelsberg 100-m-telescope. The halo source Coma C has an extent down to noise of about 80 arcmin corresponding to 3 Mpc (H_0 =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Deiss , W. Reich , H. Lesch , R. Wielebinski

Observations of giant radio halos provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of cosmic ray (CR) electrons and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The physical mechanism generating radio halos is still heavily debated. We critically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten Ensslin , Francesco Miniati , Kandaswamy Subramanian

A numerical simulation model of the injection and cooling of nonthermal particles energized by shocks formed in merging clusters of galaxies is used to fit radio and X-ray data observed from the Coma cluster of galaxies. The results are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Berrington , C. D. Dermer

We present new measurements of the diffuse radio halo emission from the Coma cluster of galaxies at 2.675 GHz and 4.85 GHz using the Effelsberg 100--m telescope. After correction for the contribution from point sources we derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 M. Thierbach , U. Klein , R. Wielebinski

Relativistic electrons, seen in the large diffuse radio halo of the Coma cluster of galaxies, should scatter background photons to higher energies. We calculate the inverse Compton contributions from the microwave background, from the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin , Peter L. Biermann

With magnetic fields below one microgauss, the minimum pressures of synchrotron plasmas start to approach those in the thermal gas in cluster outskirts and the more diffuse WHIM in large-scale structure filaments. We summarize some of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown , Damon Farnsworth

The radio spectral index map of the Coma halo shows a progressive steepening of the spectral index with increasing radius. Such a steepening cannot be simply justified by models involving continuous injection of fresh particles in the Coma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Brunetti , G. Setti , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini

We present simulated millimeter-wavelength maps and catalogs of radio galaxies across the full sky that trace the nonlinear clustering and evolution of dark matter halos from the Websky simulation at $z<4.6$ and $M_{\rm halo}>10^{12}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Zack Li , Giuseppe Puglisi , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Marcelo A. Alvarez

The presence of relativistic electrons within the diffuse gas phase of galaxy clusters is now well established, but their detailed origin remains unclear. Cosmic ray protons are also expected to accumulate during the formation of clusters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 R. Adam , H. Goksu , S. Brown , L. Rudnick , C. Ferrari