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Title: | A radio ridge connecting two galaxy clusters in a filament of the cosmic web | Authors: | GOVONI, FEDERICA Orrù, E. BONAFEDE, ANNALISA Iacobelli, M. Paladino, Rosita VAZZA, FRANCO MURGIA, MATTEO VACCA, VALENTINA Giovannini, Gabriele Feretti, L. Loi, F. BERNARDI, GIANNI Ferrari, C. Pizzo, R. F. Gheller, C. Manti, S. Brüggen, M. BRUNETTI, GIANFRANCO CASSANO, Rossella de Gasperin, F. Enßlin, T. A. Hoeft, M. Horellou, C. Junklewitz, H. Röttgering, H. J. A. Scaife, A. M. M. Shimwell, T. W. van Weeren, R. J. Wise, M. |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Journal: | SCIENCE | Number: | 364 | Issue: | 6444 | First Page: | 981 | Abstract: | Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. They grow by accreting smaller structures in a merging process that produces shocks and turbulence in the intracluster gas. We observed a ridge of radio emission connecting the merging galaxy clusters Abell 0399 and Abell 0401 with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope network at 140 megahertz. This emission requires a population of relativistic electrons and a magnetic field located in a filament between the two galaxy clusters. We performed simulations to show that a volume-filling distribution of weak shocks may reaccelerate a preexisting population of relativistic particles, producing emission at radio wavelengths that illuminates the magnetic ridge. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29820 | URL: | https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6444/981 | ISSN: | 0036-8075 | DOI: | 10.1126/science.aat7500 | Bibcode ADS: | 2019Sci...364..981G | Fulltext: | open |
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