A M greater than or similar to 3 shock in 'El Gordo' cluster and the origin of the radio relic

作者：Botteon A^*; Gastaldello F; Brunetti G; Kale R

来源：Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, 463(2): 1534-1542.

DOI：10.1093/mnras/stw2089

• radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
• shock waves
• galaxies: clusters: individual: ACT-CL J0102-4915
• radio continuum: general
• X-rays: galaxies: clusters

We present an X-ray and radio study of the famous 'El Gordo', a massive and distant (z = 0.87) galaxy cluster. In the deep (340 ks) Chandra observation, the cluster appears with an elongated and cometary morphology, a sign of its current merging state. The GMRT radio observations at 610 MHz confirm the presence of a radio halo, which remarkably overlaps the X-ray cluster emission and connects a couple of radio relics. We detect a strong shock (M greater than or similar to 3) in the NW periphery of the cluster, co-spatially located with the radio relic. This is the most distant (z = 0.87) and one of the strongest shocks detected in a galaxy cluster. This work supports the relic shock connection and allows us to investigate the origin of these radio sources in an uncommon regime of M greater than or similar to 3. For this particular case we found that shock acceleration from the thermal pool is still a viable possibility.

• 出版日期2016-12-1