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The excess in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) radiation and high energy X-rays (HEX) of Coma may be modeled by power law spectra. Their origin could be inverse Compton (IC) emission by relativistic electrons. The scattered photon fields can…

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

A very important aspect of the radio emission from galaxy clusters is represented by the diffuse radio sources associated with the intracluster medium: radio halos and relics. These radio sources indicate the existence of large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luigina Feretti

We review the possible mechanisms for production of non-thermal electrons which are responsible for non-thermal radiation in clusters of galaxies. Our primary focus is on non-thermal Bremsstrahlung and inverse Compton scattering, that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Petrosian , A. Bykov

We investigated the non-thermal hard X-ray emission in the Ophiuchus cluster of galaxies. Our aim was to characterise the physical properties of the non-thermal component and its interaction with the cosmic microwave background. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Nevalainen , D. Eckert , J. Kaastra , M. Bonamente , K. Kettula

FERMI (formely GLAST) will shortly provide crucial information on relativistic particles in galaxy clusters. We discuss non-thermal emission in the context of general calculations in which relativistic particles (protons and secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 G. Brunetti , P. Blasi , R. Cassano , S. Gabici

Emission lines in X-ray spectra of clusters of galaxies reveal the presence of heavy elements in the diffuse hot plasma (the Intra Cluster Medium, or ICM) in virial equilibrium in the dark matter potential well. The relatively simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Tozzi

We report the results from a {\it Chandra} observation of the powerful nearby (z=0.1744) radio galaxy 3C 219. We find evidence for non--thermal X-ray emission from the radio lobes which fits fairly well with a combination of IC scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Brunetti , A. Comastri , D. Dallacasa , M. Bondi , M. Pedani , G. Setti

To study some characteristics of the interstellar medium, observational data of pulsars with large Faraday rotation values (|RM|> 300 rad / m2) were used. It was suggested and justified that large |RM| values can be due to the contribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-13 R. R. Andreasyan , H. R. Andreasyan , G. M. Paronyan

Galaxy clusters are sources of gravitational radiation. The main aim of this paper is to give numerical estimates and theoretical description of the relevant features of the gravitational radiation coming from an appropriate spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Vicent Quilis , Jose M. Ibanez , Diego Saez

As energetic particles diffuse out of radio and star-forming galaxies (SFGs), their intracluster density builds up to a level that could account for a substantial part or all the emission from a radio halo. We calculate the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Yoel Rephaeli , Sharon Sadeh

We suggest that the luminous extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission which has been detected recently from clusters of galaxies is Inverse Compton (IC) scattering of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation by low energy cosmic ray electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Craig L. Sarazin , Richard Lieu

We construct a simple and robust approach for deriving constraints on magnetic fields in galaxy clusters from rotation measure (RM) maps. Relaxing the commonly used assumptions of a correlation between the magnetic field strength and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-19 Gilad Rave , Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman

The Galactic magnetic field is an integral constituent of the interstellar medium (ISM), and knowledge of its structure is crucial to understanding Galactic dynamics. The Rotation Measures (RM) of extragalactic (EG) sources have been the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-28 Anna Ordog , Rebecca A. Booth , Cameron L. Van Eck , Jo-Anne C. Brown , Thomas L. Landecker

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

Rotation measure (RM) grids of extragalactic radio sources have been widely used for studying cosmic magnetism. But their potential for exploring the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of galaxies is unclear, since other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Akahori , B. M. Gaensler , Dongsu Ryu

We analyse new results of Chandra and Suzaku which found a flux of hard X-ray emission from the compact region around Sgr A$^\ast$ (r ~ 100 pc). We suppose that this emission is generated by accretion processes onto the central supermassive…

We present spectra of the inverse-Compton and extragalactic components of the high-energy gamma-radiation based on an analysis of the emission at high galactic latitudes ($\vert$b$\vert$ $\geq$ $30\deg$). We correlate the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrew Chen , Joseph Dwyer , Philip Kaaret

The diffuse gamma-ray background radiation (GBR) at high Galactic latitudes could be dominated by inverse Compton scattering (ICS) of cosmic ray (CR) electrons on the cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) and on starlight (SL) in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar

In the framework of the quasar-radio galaxies unification the radio emitting lobes of FRII radio galaxies are pervaded by an intense quasar radiation field.Inverse Compton (IC) scattering between the relativistic electrons and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Brunetti , G. Setti , A. Comastri

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