Detection of a double relic in the Torpedo cluster: SPT-CL J0245-5302

作者：Zheng, Q.^*; Johnston-Hollitt, M.; Duchesne, S. W.; Li, W. T.

来源：Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 479(1): 730-740.

DOI：10.1093/mnras/sty1467

• techniques: interferometric
• galaxies: active
• galaxies: general
• galaxies: individual: SPT J0245-5302
• radio continuum: galaxies

The Torpedo cluster, SPT-CL J0245-5302 (S0295), is a massive, merging cluster at a redshift of z = 0.300, which exhibits a strikingly similar morphology to the Bullet cluster 1E 0657-55.8 (z = 0.296), including a classic bow shock in the cluster's intra-cluster medium revealed by Chandra X-ray observations. We present Australia Telescope Compact Array data centred at 2.1 GHz and Murchison Widefield Array data at frequencies between 72 and 231 MHz which we use to study the properties of the cluster. We characterize a number of discrete and diffuse radio sources in the cluster, including the detection of two previously unknown radio relics on the cluster periphery. The average spectral index of the diffuse emission between 70 MHz and 3.1 GHz is alpha = -1.63(-0.10)(+0.10) and a radio-derived Mach number for the shock in the west of the cluster is calculated as M = 2.04. The Torpedo cluster is thus a double relic system at moderate redshift.

• 出版日期2018-9
• 单位上海交通大学