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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 663, Issue 2, Pages L61-L64Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/520337
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acceleration of particles; galaxies : active; galaxies : clusters : general; galaxies : clusters : individual ( Perseus); radiation mechanisms : nonthermal
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Recently, strong AGN outbursts at the centers of galaxy clusters have been found. Using a simple model, we study particle acceleration around a shock excited by an outburst and estimate nonthermal emission from the accelerated particles. We show that emission from secondary electrons is consistent with the radio observations of the minihalo in the Perseus Cluster, if there was a strong AGN outburst >= 108 yr ago with an energy of similar to 1.8 x 10(62) ergs. The validity of our model depends on the frequency of the large outbursts. We also estimate gamma-ray emission from the accelerated particles and show that it could be detected with GLAST.
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