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后发座星系团内/周围的弥散射电辐射:超越简单吸积

Diffuse Radio Emission in/around the Coma Cluster: Beyond Simple Accretion

Shea Brown, Lawrence Rudnick

摘要:

我们报告新的1.41 GHz的绿岸望远镜和352兆赫韦斯特博克综合射电望远镜观测后发座星系团及其周围。在1.41 GHz处,我们初步探测到后发座射电遗迹源1253+275的延伸,使其总范围约为2 Mpc。正如我们的GBT数据、NVSS和档案图像所示,这个延伸的遗迹是线性偏振的,加强了对冲击波的解释。这个延伸的遗迹与后发座星系团的坠落区域中一堵以前未被发现的星系“墙”接壤。我们认为,无线电遗迹是一个坠落冲击,而不是即将离任的合并冲击认为负责其他无线电遗迹。我们还在352 MHz射电晕的西侧发现了一个尖锐的边缘或“前沿”。这一锋与其南半部X射线表面亮度和温度的类似不连续性相一致,表明当地同步加速器发射电子的主要冲击加速起源。北半部的同步加速器前端是不太好的相关性与X射线的属性,也许是由于投影效应。我们确认了352 MHz射电亮度和X射线亮度之间的全局像素到像素幂律相关性,其斜率与巨射电晕中相对论电子的初级激波加速或次级生产的预测不一致,但在遗迹等离子体的湍流再加速框架中是允许的。这些一阶模型的失败和对更全面地观察团内介质散射的需要也通过散射射电和X射线发射的非常不同的形状而突出。我们注意到令人费解的对应关系的形状较亮的地区的无线电晕和表面质量密度来自弱透镜。

英文摘要:

We report on new 1.41 GHz Green Bank Telescope and 352 MHz Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope observations of the Coma cluster and its environs. At 1.41 GHz we tentatively detect an extension to the Coma cluster radio relic source 1253+275 which makes its total extent ~2 Mpc. This extended relic is linearly polarized as seen in our GBT data, the NVSS, and archival images, strengthening a shock interpretation. The extended relic borders a previously undetected "wall" of galaxies in the infall region of the Coma cluster. We suggest that the radio relic is an infall shock, as opposed to the outgoing merger shocks believed responsible for other radio relics. We also find a sharp edge, or "front", on the western side of the 352 MHz radio halo. This front is coincident with a similar discontinuity in the X-ray surface brightness and temperature in its southern half, suggesting a primary shock-acceleration origin for the local synchrotron emitting electrons. The northern half of the synchrotron front is less well correlated with the X-ray properties, perhaps due to projection effects. We confirm the global pixel-to-pixel power-law correlation between the 352 MHz radio brightness and X-ray brightness with a slope that is inconsistent with predictions of either primary shock acceleration or secondary production of relativistic electrons in Giant Radio Halos, but is allowable in the framework of the turbulent re-acceleration of relic plasma. The failure of these first order models and the need for a more comprehensive view of the intracluster medium energization is also highlighted by the very different shapes of the diffuse radio and X-ray emission. We note the puzzling correspondence between the shape of the brighter regions of the radio halo and the surface mass density derived from weak lensing.

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