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The forthcoming generation of radio telescope arrays promises significant advancements in sensitivity and resolution, enabling the identification and characterization of many new faint and diffuse radio sources. Conventional manual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Chiara Stuardi , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Andrea Botteon

We report upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array radio observations of a low-mass merging galaxy cluster PSZ2 G181.06+48.47. This exceptional galaxy cluster hosts two megaparsec-scale diffuse sources,…

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

Diffuse, low surface-brightness radio emission in merging galaxy clusters provides insights into cosmic structure formation, the growth of magnetic fields, and turbulence. This paper reports a search for diffuse radio emission in a pilot…

We present the results of a search for diffuse radio emission in a uniformly selected sample of 30 of the most massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich selected galaxy clusters at $z > 1$, providing the first statistical constraints on the evolution of…

Non-thermal properties of galaxy clusters have been studied with detailed and deep radio images in comparison with X-ray data. While much progress has been made, most of the studied clusters are at a relatively low redshift (z < 0.3). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 G. Giovannini , M. Cau , A. Bonafede , H. Ebeling , L. Feretti , M. Girardi , M. Gitti , F. Govoni , A. Ignesti , M. Murgia , G. B. Taylor , V. Vacca

Centrally located diffuse radio emission has been observed in both merging and non-merging galaxy clusters. Depending on their morphology and size, we distinguish between giant radio haloes, which occur predominantly in merging clusters,…

The presence of non-thermal electrons and large scale magnetic fields in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) is known through the detection of mega-parsec (Mpc) scale diffuse radio synchrotron emission. Although a significant amount of progress…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Ramij Raja , Majidul Rahaman , Abhirup Datta , Reinout J. van Weeren , Huib T. Intema , Surajit Paul

Diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters, such as radio halos, relics, and mini halos, is a key tracer of non-thermal processes, turbulence, and magnetic fields within the intra-cluster medium. However, their low surface brightness, as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Verlon Etsebeth , Michelle Lochner , Konstantinos Kolokythas , Kenda Knowles , Emma Tolley

Interacting pairs of galaxy clusters offer a unique opportunity to study the properties of the gas residing in the intracluster bridge connecting them. As a consequence of the encounter, both the X-ray and radio emission from the gas are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Andrea Botteon , Turgay Caglar , Sibel Döner , Reinout J. van Weeren , Krista Lynne Smith

We review some aspects of radio continuum polarimetric imaging of high redshift radio galaxies. The correlation between extreme values of Faraday rotation observed toward radio emitting structures in nearby radio galaxies, and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Carilli , H. J. A. Rottgering , G. K. Miley L. Pentericci , D. E. Harris

In this work, we investigated the interplay between the X-ray and radio emission of the cluster PSZ2G113.91-37.01 (z = 0.371) using the high-quality XMM-Newton observations of the CHEX-MATE project, and the images of the LoTSS-DR2. The…

The knowledge of the origin and statistical properties of diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters has appreciably improved thanks to the GMRT Radio Halo Survey, a project based on 610 MHz observations of clusters belonging to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-10 Simona Giacintucci

Detecting diffuse radio emission, such as from halos, in galaxy clusters is crucial for understanding large-scale structure formation in the universe. Traditional methods, which rely on X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Ashutosh K. Mishra , Emma Tolley , Shreyam Parth Krishna , Jean-Paul Kneib

We aim at an unbiased census of the radio halo population in galaxy clusters and test whether current low number counts of radio halos have arisen from selection biases. We construct near-complete samples based on X-ray and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Martin W. Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

Aims. We present the first results of an ongoing project devoted to the search of giant radio halos in galaxy clusters located in the redshift range z=0.2--0.4. One of the main goals of our study is to measure the fraction of massive galaxy…

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

Radio halos are synchrotron diffuse sources at the centre of a fraction of galaxy clusters. The study of large samples of clusters with adequate radio and X-ray data is necessary to investigate the origin of radio halos and their connection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 V. Cuciti , R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , D. Dallacasa , R. J. van Weeren , S. Giacintucci , A. Bonafede , F. de Gasperin , S. Ettori , R. Kale , G. W. Pratt , T. Venturi

CIZA J2242.8+5301 is a merging system with a prominent (~2 Mpc long) radio relic, which together with the morphology of the X-ray emission provides strong evidence for a violent collision along the N-S axis. We present our constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. James Jee , Andra Stroe , William Dawson , David Wittman , Henk Hoekstra , Marcus Bruggen , Huub Rottggering , David Sobral , Reinout J. van Weeren

In a growing number of galaxy clusters diffuse extended radio sources have been found. These sources are not directly associated with individual cluster galaxies. The radio emission reveal the presence of cosmic rays and magnetic fields in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 R. J. van Weeren , F. de Gasperin , H. Akamatsu , M. Brüggen , L. Feretti , H. Kang , A. Stroe , F. Zandanel

Large-scale diffuse radio emission is observed in some clusters of galaxies. There is ample of evidence that the emission has its origin in synchrotron losses of relativistic electrons, accelerated in the course of clusters mergers. In a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Hoeft , M. Brueggen , G. Yepes , S. Gottloeber , A. Schwope