English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Journal Article

A radio ridge connecting two galaxy clusters in a filament of the cosmic web

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons16142

Enßlin,  T. A.
Computational Structure Formation, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Govoni, F., Orrù, E., Bonafede, A., Iacobelli, M., Paladino, R., Vazza, F., et al. (2019). A radio ridge connecting two galaxy clusters in a filament of the cosmic web. Science, 364(6444), 981-985. doi:10.1126/science.aat7500.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-482F-8
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.