English
Related papers

Related papers: A hot X-ray filament associated with A3017 galaxy …

200 papers

We analyse those objects in the Brightest 55 sample of clusters of galaxies which have a short central cooling time and a central temperature drop. Such clusters are likely to require some form of heating. Where clear radio bubbles are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. H. Dunn , A. C. Fabian

32 GHz observations with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope revealed a highly polarized Galactic Centre filament: G0.087-0.087, running parallel to the well-known Arc structure. It has a similar flat spectrum, but it is an order of magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Reich

We investigate the X-ray properties of the powerful radio galaxy Hercules A (3C 348) using ROSAT HRI, PSPC and ASCA observations. The ASCA data are well fit by a thermal plasma model with a temperature of about 4.3 keV and abundances 0.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Siebert , N. Kawai , W. Brinkmann

We report the detection of 10 new X-ray filaments using the data from the {\sl Chandra} X-ray satellite for the inner $6^{\prime}$ ($\sim 15$ parsec) around the Galactic center (GC). All these X-ray filaments are characterized by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Lu , T. T. Yuan , Y. -Q. Lou

Radio halos are faint radio sources usually located at the center of merging clusters of galaxies. These diffuse radio sources are rare, having so far been found only in about 30 clusters of galaxies, suggesting that particular conditions…

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

We present a 66 ksec $\textit{Chandra}$ X-ray observation of the galaxy cluster RXJ0334.2-0111. This deep observation revealed a unique bow shock system associated with a wide angle tail (WAT) radio galaxy and several intriguing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Sarthak Dasadia , Ming Sun , Andrea Morandi , Craig Sarazin , Tracy Clarke , Paul Nulsen , Francesco Massaro , Elke Roediger , Dan Harris , Bill Forman

We present recent ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) emission lines in the brightest cluster galaxy of RXCJ1504.1$-$0248, which is one of the most extreme cool core clusters known. The central galaxy contains $1.9\times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 A. N. Vantyghem , B. R. McNamara , H. R. Russell , A. C. Edge , P. E. J. Nulsen , F. Combes , A. C. Fabian , M. McDonald , P. Salome

Radio halos are extended and diffuse non-thermal radio sources present at the cluster center, not obviously associated with any individual galaxy. A strong correlation has been found between the cluster X-ray luminosity and the halo radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Giovannini , L. Feretti , M. Girardi , F. Govoni , M. Murgia , V. Vacca , J. Bagchi

We present images of NGC4696, the central galaxy in the Centaurus cluster, showing the large extent of cool filaments which are bright in H-alpha line emission. These filaments share the detailed structure of both the central dust lane and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 C. S. Crawford , N. A. Hatch , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

Recent observations of the Arches cluster located within a projected distance of 30 pc from the dynamical center of the Galaxy have shown the presence of diffuse and discrete X-ray continuum emission, diffuse 6.4keV line emission as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Yusef-Zadeh

We present Chandra and radio observations, and analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, of the radio galaxy B2 0838+32A (4C 32.26) and its environment. The radio galaxy is at the centre of a nearby group that has often been identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nazirah N. Jetha , Martin J. Hardcastle , Trevor J. Ponman , Irini Sakelliou

We have performed a multi-wavelength analysis of two galaxy cluster systems selected with the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and composed of cluster pairs and an inter-cluster filament. We have focused on one pair of particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 V. Bonjean , N. Aghanim , P. Salomé , M. Douspis , A. Beelen

We present Chandra gas temperature maps for two hot, intermediate-redshift clusters A665 and A2163. Both show strong temperature variations in their central r=1 Mpc regions, naturally interpreted as product of the subcluster mergers. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 M. Markevitch , A. Vikhlinin

Cluster cool cores possess networks of line-emitting filaments. These filaments are thought to originate via uplift of cold gas from cluster centers by buoyant active galactic nuclei (AGN) bubbles, or via local thermal instability in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Mateusz Ruszkowski , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Christopher S. Reynolds

Multiwavelength studies of galaxy clusters are crucial for understanding the complex interconnection of the thermal and non-thermal constituents of these massive structures and uncovering the physical processes involved in their formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Swarna Chatterjee , Denisha Pillay , Abhirup Datta , Ramij Raja , Kenda Knowles , Majidul Rahaman , S. P. Sikhosana

We measure the local correlation between radio emission and Compton-$y$ signal across two galaxy clusters, Abell~399 and Abell~401, using maps from the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) + \Planck. These…

Clusters of galaxies are excellent laboratories for studying recurring nuclear activity in galactic nuclei since their hot gaseous medium can vastly prolong the detectability of their radio lobes via better confinement. We report here a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Sameer Salunkhe , Surajit Paul , Gopal-Krishna , Satish Sonkamble , Shubham Bhagat

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. They grow by accreting smaller structures in a merging process that produces shocks and turbulence in the intra-cluster gas. We observed a ridge of radio…

New multi-wavelength (radio, optical & X-rays) observational evidences are presented which show that the nearby (z=0.046), rich cluster of galaxies Abell 3376 is experiencing a major event of binary subcluster merger. The key evidence is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joydeep Bagchi

Using the publicly available eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS) data, we detected the stacked X-ray emissions at the position of 463 filaments at a significance of 3.8 sigma based on the combination of all energy bands. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 Hideki Tanimura , Nabila Aghanim , Marian Douspis , Nicola Malavasi