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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 463, Issue 2, Pages 1534-1542Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2089
Keywords
radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; shock waves; galaxies: clusters: individual: ACT-CL J0102-4915; radio continuum: general; X-rays: galaxies: clusters
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- PRIN-INAF
- DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award
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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.
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