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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 493, Issue 2, Pages 2306-2317Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa418
Keywords
acceleration of particles; plasmas; galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Germany's Excellence Strategy [EXC 2121, 390833306]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1607611]
- ERC Starting Grant 'MAGCOW' [714196]
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Radio relics are vast synchrotron sources that sit on the outskirts of merging galaxy clusters. In this work we model their formation using a Press-Schechter formalism to simulate merger rates, analytical models for the intracluster medium and the shock dynamics, as well as a simple model for the cosmic ray electrons at the merger shocks. We show that the statistical properties of the population of radio relics are strongly dependent on key physical parameters, such as the acceleration efficiency, the magnetic field strength at the relic, the geometry of the relic and the duration of the electron acceleration at merger shocks. It turns out that the flux distribution as well as the power-mass relation can constrain key parameters of the intracluster medium. With the advent of new large-area radio surveys, statistical analyses of radio relics will complement what we have learned from observations of individual objects.
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