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Title: | KAT-7 observations of an unbiased sample of mass-selected galaxy clusters | Authors: | BERNARDI, GIANNI VENTURI, Tiziana CASSANO, Rossella Dallacasa, Daniele BRUNETTI, GIANFRANCO Cuciti, V. Johnston-Hollitt, M. Oozeer, N. Parekh, V. Smirnov, O. M. |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Number: | 456 | Issue: | 2 | First Page: | 1259 | Abstract: | The presence of megaparsec-scale radio haloes in galaxy clusters has already been established by many observations over the last two decades. The emerging explanation for the formation of these giant sources of diffuse synchrotron radio emission is that they trace turbulent regions in the intracluster medium, where particles are trapped and accelerated during cluster mergers. Our current observational knowledge is, however, mainly limited to massive systems. Here we present observations of a sample of 14 mass-selected galaxy clusters, I.e. M<SUB>500</SUB> > 4 × 10<SUP>14</SUP> M<SUB>☉</SUB>, in the Southern hemisphere, aimed to study the occurrence of radio haloes in low-mass clusters and test the correlation between the radio halo power at 1.4 GHz P<SUB>1.4</SUB> and the cluster mass M<SUB>500</SUB>. Our observations were performed with the 7-element Karoo Array Telescope at 1.86 GHz. We found three candidates to host diffuse cluster-scale emission and derived upper limits at the level of 0.6-1.9 × 10<SUP>24</SUP> Watt Hz<SUP>-1</SUP> for ∼50 per cent of the clusters in the sample, significantly increasing the number of clusters with radio halo information in the considered mass range. Our results confirm that bright radio haloes in less massive galaxy clusters are statistically rare. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/24666 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/456/2/1259/1060104 http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01022v2 |
ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stv2589 | Bibcode ADS: | 2016MNRAS.456.1259B | Fulltext: | open |
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