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We present VLA data at 330 MHz and 1.5 GHz of the radio emission observed in the cooling flow cluster A2626. By producing images at different resolutions we found that the radio source consists of different components: an unresolved core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Myriam Gitti

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 detect and characterise extended, diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters at 168 MHz within the Epoch of Reionization 0-hour field: a $45^\circ \times 45^\circ$ region of the southern sky centred on R.~A.${}= 0^\circ$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 S. W. Duchesne , M. Johnston-Hollitt , A. R. Offringa , G. W. Pratt , Q. Zheng , S. Dehghan

The first detection of a diffuse radio source in a cluster of galaxies, dates back to the 1959 (Coma Cluster, Large et al. 1959). Since then, synchrotron radiating radio sources have been found in several clusters, and represent an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , F. Govoni , M. Murgia

We present results from LOFAR and GMRT observations of the galaxy cluster MACS$\,$J0717.5$+$3745. The cluster is undergoing a violent merger involving at least four sub-clusters, and it is known to host a radio halo. LOFAR observations…

The aim of this work is to investigate the possible presence of extended diffuse synchrotron radio emission associated with the intracluster medium of the complex galaxy cluster A1689. The radio continuum emission of A1689 has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Vacca , F. Govoni , M. Murgia , G. Giovannini , L. Feretti , M. Tugnoli , M. A. Verheijen , G. B. Taylor

The Galactic disc is opaque to radio waves from extragalactic sources with frequencies nu less than ~3 MHz. However, radio waves with kHz, Hz, and even lower frequencies may propagate through the intergalactic medium (IGM). I argue that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Brian C. Lacki

Galaxy clusters are assembled via merging of smaller structures, in a process that generates shocks and turbulence in the intra cluster medium and produces radio diffuse emission in the form of halos and relics. The cluster pair A399-A401…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 C. D. Nunhokee , G. Bernardi , S. Manti , F. Govoni , A. Bonafede , T. Venturi , D. Dallacasa , M. Murgia , E. Orrú , R. F. Pizzo , O. M. Smirnov , V. Vacca

The galaxy cluster Abell 523 (A523) hosts an extended diffuse synchrotron source historically classified as a radio halo. Its radio power at 1.4 GHz makes it one of the most significant outliers in the scaling relations between observables…

We present evidence for the existence of shock waves caused by the formation of the large-scale structure. In some clusters of galaxies peripherally located sources of extended diffuse radio emission exist, the so-called cluster radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin , Peter L. Biermann , Ulrich Klein , Sven Kohle

We study the origin of the non-thermal emission from the intracluster medium, including the excess hard X-ray emission and cluster-wide radio haloes, through fitting two representative models to the Coma cluster. If the synchrotron emitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Liang , V. Dogiel , M. Birkinshaw

We recently performed a study of a sample of relaxed, cooling core galaxy clusters with deep Very Large Array observations at 1.4 GHz. We find that in the central regions of A1835, A2029, and Ophiuchus the dominant radio galaxy is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Murgia , F. Govoni , M. Markevitch , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , G. B. Taylor , E. Carretti

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 pair of large radio lobes in the Virgo cluster, each about 23 kpc in radius, have curiously sharp outer edges where the radio-synchrotron continuum flux declines abruptly. However, just adjacent to this sharp transition, the radio flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 William G. Mathews , Fulai Guo

We report the discovery of large-scale diffuse radio emission South-East of the galaxy cluster MACS J0520.7-1328, detected through high sensitivity Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope 323 MHz observations. This emission is dominated by an…

Many galaxy clusters show diffuse cluster-scale emission in the form of radio halos, showing that magnetic fields and relativistic electrons are mixed in with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). There is general agreement that the origin of…

Merging galaxy clusters often host spectacular diffuse radio synchrotron sources. These sources can be explained by a non-thermal pool of relativistic electrons accelerated by shocks and turbulence in the intracluster medium. The origin of…

We present here results from observations at 5.5 and 9 GHz of the Bullet cluster 1E 0657-55.8 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). Our results show detection of diffuse emission in the cluster. Our findings are consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Siddharth Malu , Abhirup Datta , Pritpal Sandhu

Galaxy clusters are known to host a variety of extended radio sources: tailed radio galaxies whose shape is modelled by the interaction with the intra-cluster medium (ICM); radio bubbles filling cavities in the ICM distribution and rising…

The Coma cluster is one of the nearest galaxy clusters, and the first one in which a radio halo and a peripheral relic were discovered. While its halo and the central parts of the intracluster medium have been studied extensively, X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. A. Ogrean , M. Brüggen