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Investigations of the cluster environment of radio sources have not shown a correlation between radio power and degree of clustering. However, it has been demonstrated that extended X-ray luminosity and galaxy clustering do exhibit a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Miller , F. N. Owen , J. O. Burns , M. J. Ledlow , W. Voges

We report the detection of a diffuse radio halo source in the hottest known cluster of galaxies 1E0657-56 (RXJ0658-5557). The radio halo has a morphology similar to the X-ray emission from the hot intracluster medium. The presence of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Liang , R. W. Hunstead , M. Birkinshaw , P. Andreani

We discuss the statistical properties of the radio halo population in galaxy clusters. Radio bi-modality is observed in galaxy clusters: a fraction of clusters host giant radio halos while the majority of clusters do not show evidence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , T. Venturi

By cross-correlating the 1.4 GHz FIRST catalog of radio sources with the Abell cluster catalog we have found an excess surface density by a factor ~5 of radio sources within a projected distance, r_p, of 0.1 Mpc (for h=0.65) from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marcella Massardi , Gianfranco De Zotti

We present Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope 610 MHz observations of 14 Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) clusters, including new data for nine. The sample includes 73\% of ACT equatorial clusters with $M_{500} > 5 \times 10^{14}\;M_\odot$.…

Galaxy-cluster merger shocks efficiently accelerate the ambient electrons through diffusive shock acceleration and amplify magnetic field by compressing the Inter Cluster Medium. As a result, such objects produce a significant amount of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-29 S. Paul , A. Datta , H. T. Intema

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

To understand the feedback of black holes on their environment or the acceleration of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the present cosmic epoch, a systematic, all-sky inventory of radio galaxies in the local universe is needed. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Heino Falcke , Pim Schellart , Nils Nierstenhoefer , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Cool cores of some galaxy clusters exhibit faint radio "minihalos." Their origin is unclear; their study has been limited by their small number. We undertook a systematic search for minihalos in a large sample of X-ray luminous clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simona Giacintucci , Maxim Markevitch , Tiziana Venturi , Tracy Clarke , Rossella Cassano , Pasquale Mazzotta

We present a multi-band study of the diffuse emission in the galaxy cluster Abell 3558, located in the core of the Shapley Supercluster. Using new MeerKAT UHF-Band and uGMRT Band-3 observations, and published MeerKAT L-band and ASKAP 887…

In the current paradigm, high redshift radio halos are expected to be scarce due to inverse Compton energy losses and redshift dimming, which cause them to be intrinsically faint. This low occurrence fraction is predicted by cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 S. P. Sikhosana , M. Hilton , G. Bernardi , K. Kesebonye , D. Y. Klutse , K. Knowles , K. Moodley , T. Mroczkowski , B. Partridge , C. Sifón , C. Vargas , E. Wollack

We study the overdensity of point sources in the direction of X-ray-selected galaxy clusters from the Meta-Catalog of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies (MCXC; $\langle z \rangle = 0.14$) at South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Sydney University…

We present new low-frequency ($\nu = 88$-216 MHz) observations of the complex merging galaxy cluster Abell 3266. These new observations are taken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in its Phase II 'extended', long-baseline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 S. W. Duchesne , M. Johnston-Hollitt , C. J. Riseley , I. Bartalucci , S. R. Keel

By combining the REFLEX and NORAS cluster datasets with the NVSS radio catalogue, we obtain a sample of 145, z<0.3, X-ray selected clusters brighter than 3 10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2 that show a central radio emission above 3 mJy. For virial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 M. Magliocchetti , M. Bruggen

We have used archival GMRT data to image and study 39 galaxy clusters. These observations were made as part of the GMRT Key Project on galaxy clusters between 2001 and 2004. The observations presented in this sample include 14 observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lijo T. George , Ruta Kale , Yogesh Wadadekar

The dying radio sources represent a very interesting and largely unexplored stage of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) evolution. They are considered to be very rare, and almost all of the few known ones were found in galaxy clusters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Murgia , M. Markevitch , F. Govoni , P. Parma , R. Fanti , H. R. de Ruiter , K. -H. Mack

We report on the detection of diffuse radio emission in the X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster A1351 (z=0.322) using archival Very Large Array data at 1.4 GHz. Given its central location, morphology, and Mpc-scale extent, we classify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Giacintucci , T. Venturi , R. Cassano , D. Dallacasa , G. Brunetti

Giant radio halos are mega-parsec scale synchrotron sources detected in a fraction of massive and merging galaxy clusters. Radio halos provide one of the most important pieces of evidence for non-thermal components in large scale structure.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , H. J. A. Rottgering , M. Bruggen

The clustering properties of local, S_{1.4 GHz} > 1 mJy, radio sources are investigated for a sample of 820 objects drawn from the joint use of the FIRST and 2dF Galaxy Redshift surveys. To this aim, we present 271 new bj < 19.45…

Here we present Halo-FDCA, a robust open source Python package for modeling and estimating total flux densities of radio (mini) halos in galaxy clusters. Radio halos are extended ( ~200 - 1500 kpc in size) synchrotron emitting sources found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-26 J. M. Boxelaar , R. J. van Weeren , A. Botteon