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Titolo: | Discovery of a radio relic in the low mass, merging galaxy cluster PLCK G200.9-28.2 | Autori: | Kale, Ruta Wik, Daniel R. Giacintucci, Simona VENTURI, Tiziana BRUNETTI, GIANFRANCO CASSANO, Rossella Dallacasa, Daniele DE GASPERIN, FRANCESCO |
Data pubblicazione: | 2017 | Rivista: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Abstract: | Radio relics at the peripheries of galaxy clusters are tracers of the elusive cluster merger shocks. We report the discovery of a single radio relic in the galaxy cluster PLCK G200.9-28.2 (z = 0.22, M500 = 2.7 ± 0.2 × 1014 M☉) using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope at 235 and 610 MHz and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array at 1500 MHz. The relic has a size of ∼1 × 0.28 Mpc, an arc-like morphology and is located at 0.9 Mpc from the X-ray brightness peak in the cluster. The integrated spectral index of the relic is 1.21 ± 0.15. The spectral index map between 235 and 610 MHz shows steepening from the outer to the inner edge of the relic in line with the expectation from a cluster merger shock. Under the assumption of diffusive shock acceleration, the radio spectral index implies a Mach number of 3.3 ± 1.8 for the shock. The analysis of archival XMM-Newton data shows that PLCK G200.9-28.2 consists of a northern brighter sub-cluster, and a southern sub-cluster in a state of merger. This cluster has the lowest mass amongst the clusters hosting single radio relics. The position of the Planck Sunyaev-Ze'ldovich effect in this cluster is offset by 700 kpc from the X-ray peak in the direction of the radio relic, suggests a physical origin for the offset. Such large offsets in low mass clusters can be a useful tool to select disturbed clusters and to study the state of merger. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27342 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/472/1/940/4082089?redirectedFrom=fulltext | ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stx2031 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017MNRAS.472..940K | Fulltext: | open |
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