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星系团射电微晕样本的扩展

Expanding the sample of radio minihalos in galaxy clusters

Simona Giacintucci, Maxim Markevitch, Rossella Cassano, Tiziana Venturi, Tracy E. Clarke, Ruta Kale, Virginia Cuciti

摘要:

射电小晕是在某些星系团的冷核中发现的来源不明的弥散同步辐射源。我们使用GMRT和VLA数据通过报告三个新的小晕检测(A 2667、A 907和PSZ 1 G139.61+24.20)和确认五个簇中的小晕(MACS J0159.8-0849、MACS J0329.6-0211、RXC J2129.6+0005、AS 780和A 3444)来扩大小晕的样本。有了这些新的发现和确认,样本现在为23个,是迄今为止最大的样本。为了保持一致性,我们还重新分析了7个已知小晕的VLA 1.4 GHz观测档案。我们重新审视可能的非热发射和他们的集群主机的热性能之间的相关性。与我们先前从较小样本中的发现一致,我们发现小晕射电光度和总星系团质量之间没有很强的关系。相反,我们发现微晕射电功率和冷核心(r<70 kpc)的X射线辐射热光度之间存在很强的正相关性。这补充了我们先前的结果,即大质量星系团中的大多数(如果不是所有的话)冷核心都包含一个迷你晕。无线电和钱德拉X射线图像的比较表明,微晕发射通常局限于同心晃动冷锋在我们的大多数集群的核心,支持的假设,即微晕产生的电子再加速引起的湍流核心气体晃动。综上所述,我们的研究结果表明,小晕的起源应该是密切相关的热等离子体在集群冷核心的属性。

英文摘要:

Radio minihalos are diffuse synchrotron sources of unknown origin found in the cool cores of some galaxy clusters. We use GMRT and VLA data to expand the sample of minihalos by reporting three new minihalo detections (A 2667, A 907 and PSZ1 G139.61+24.20) and confirming minihalos in five clusters (MACS J0159.8-0849, MACS J0329.6-0211, RXC J2129.6+0005, AS 780 and A 3444). With these new detections and confirmations, the sample now stands at 23, the largest sample to date. For consistency, we also reanalyze archival VLA 1.4 GHz observations of 7 known minihalos. We revisit possible correlations between the non-thermal emission and the thermal properties of their cluster hosts. Consistently with our earlier findings from a smaller sample, we find no strong relation between the minihalo radio luminosity and the total cluster mass. Instead, we find a strong positive correlation between the minihalo radio power and X-ray bolometric luminosity of the cool core (r<70 kpc). This supplements our earlier result that most if not all cool cores in massive clusters contain a minihalo. Comparison of radio and Chandra X-ray images indicates that the minihalo emission is typically confined by concentric sloshing cold fronts in the cores of most of our clusters, supporting the hypothesis that minihalos arise from electron reacceleration by turbulence caused by core gas sloshing. Taken together, our findings suggest that the origin of minihalos should be closely related to the properties of thermal plasma in cluster cool cores.

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