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星系团巨射电晕标度关系的再研究

Revisiting scaling relations for giant radio halos in galaxy clusters

R. Cassano, S. Ettori, G. Brunetti, S. Giacintucci, G. W. Pratt, T. Venturi, R. Kale, K. Dolag, M. Markevitch

摘要:

许多星系团拥有兆秒差距尺度的射电晕,这是由磁化的星系团内介质中的超相对论电子产生的。在过去的十年中,建立了无线电晕的功率和托管集群的热特性之间的相关性,包括晕的存在和集群合并之间的联系。X射线光度和红移限制的扩展GMRT射电晕巡天为晕的统计研究提供了丰富而独特的数据集。我们统一分析了GMRT星系团样本的射电和X射线数据,并使用新的普朗克SZ星表,重新审视晕的功率和星系团的热性质之间的相关性。我们发现1.4 GHz晕的无线电功率与R_500内计算的星系团X射线(0.1--2.4 keV)亮度成正比,为P_1.4 L_500^2.0。我们更大、更均匀的样本证实,X射线发光(L_500 > 5x10^44 erg/s)的星系团分支成两个群体-射电晕依赖于相关性,而具有射电晕发射上限的星系团则远低于相关性。如果我们从X射线亮度中去掉冷核,这种双峰性仍然存在。与普朗克数据相关联,我们发现P_1.4与R_500内的簇积分SZ信号成比例,即P_1.4 Y_500 ^[2.1],与之前的发现一致。然而,与之前的研究因不完整和样本量小而受到限制的情况相反,我们发现“SZ发光”Y_500 > 6x 10 ^-5 Mpc^2的团簇表现出与射电X射线图中类似的双峰行为。这两种相关性的双峰可以追溯到集群动力学,无线电晕发现专门合并集群。这些结果证实了合并在巨射电晕起源中的关键作用,表明它们触发了相对论粒子加速。

英文摘要:

Many galaxy clusters host Megaparsec-scale radio halos, generated by ultrarelativistic electrons in the magnetized intracluster medium. Correlations between the power of radio halos and the thermal properties of the hosting clusters were established in the last decade, including the connection between the presence of a halo and cluster mergers. The X-ray luminosity and redshift limited Extended GMRT Radio Halo Survey provides a rich and unique dataset for statistical studies of the halos. We uniformly analyze the radio and X-ray data for the GMRT cluster sample, and use the new Planck SZ catalog, to revisit the correlations between the power of halos and the thermal properties of galaxy clusters. We find that the radio power of halos at 1.4 GHz scales with the cluster X-ray (0.1--2.4 keV) luminosity computed within R_500 as P_1.4 L_500^2.0. Our bigger and more homogenous sample confirms that the X-ray luminous (L_500 > 5x10^44 erg/s) clusters branch into two populations --- radio halos lie on the correlation, while clusters with upper limits to radio-halo emission are well below that correlation. This bimodality remains if we excise cool cores from the X-ray luminosities. Correlating with Planck data, we find that P_1.4 scales with the cluster integrated SZ signal within R_500 as P_1.4 Y_500^2.1, in line with previous findings. However, contrary to previous studies that were limited by incompleteness and small sample size, we find that the "SZ-luminous" Y_500 > 6x10^-5 Mpc^2 clusters show a bimodal behavior similar to that in the radio-X-ray diagram. Bimodality of both correlations can be traced to clusters dynamics, with radio halos found exclusively in merging clusters. These results confirm the key role of mergers for the origin of giant radio halos, suggesting that they trigger the relativistic particle acceleration.

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