Diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters

RJ Van Weeren, F de Gasperin, H Akamatsu… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
In a growing number of galaxy clusters diffuse extended radio sources have been found.
These sources are not directly associated with individual cluster galaxies. The radio …

Radio halo and relic candidates from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey

G Giovannini, M Tordi, L Feretti - New Astronomy, 1999 - Elsevier
We present the first results of the search of new halo and relic candidates in the NRAO VLA
Sky Survey. We have inspected a sample of 205 clusters from the X-ray-brightest Abell-type …

4C 41.17-A radio galaxy at a redshift of 3.8

KC Chambers, GK Miley… - … 363, Nov. 1, 1990, p. 21 …, 1990 - adsabs.harvard.edu
We report the discovery and study of the most distant radio galaxy observed to date. A
multispectral investigation of the ultrasteep spectrum radio Source 4C 41.17 has identified a …

Deep images of cluster radio halos

M Bacchi, L Feretti, G Giovannini, F Govoni - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2003 - aanda.org
New radio data are presented for the clusters A401, A545, A754, A1914, A2219 and A2390,
where the presence of diffuse radio emission was suggested from the images of the NRAO …

Shocks and cold fronts in merging and massive galaxy clusters: new detections with Chandra

A Botteon, F Gastaldello… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A number of merging galaxy clusters show the presence of shocks and cold fronts, ie sharp
discontinuities in surface brightness and temperature. The observation of these features …

Anomalous radio-loudness of Cygnus A and other powerful radio galaxies

PD Barthel, KA Arnaud - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
The nearby, extremely powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A stands out as having an atypically
low far-infrared/radio luminosity ratio. It is demonstrated that in objects displaying such a low …

Spectral indices, particle ages, and the ambient medium of giant radio galaxies

KH Mack, U Klein, CP O'Dea, AG Willis… - Astronomy and …, 1998 - dspace.rri.res.in
We present a spectral aging study of a sample of 5 giant radio galaxies based on radio
continuum data obtained at frequencies between 326 MHz and 10.6 GHz. Using synchrotron …

Searching for cluster magnetic fields in the cooling flows of 0745-191, A2029, and A4059

GB Taylor, EJ Barton, J Ge - … (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 107, no. 6 …, 1994 - adsabs.harvard.edu
We have performed sensitive polarimetric radio observations with the VLA of three galaxies:
PKS 0745-191, PKS 1508+ 059, and PKS 2354-350, embedded in x-ray cooling flow …

A combined low-radio frequency/X-ray study of galaxy groups. I. Giant metrewave radio telescope observations at 235 MHz and 610 MHz

S Giacintucci, E O'Sullivan, J Vrtilek… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present new Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope observations at 235 MHz
and 610 MHz of 18 X-ray bright galaxy groups. These observations are part of an extended …

Particle acceleration in cooling flow clusters of galaxies: The case of Abell 2626

M Gitti, G Brunetti, L Feretti, G Setti - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2004 - aanda.org
Recently a theoretical model has been proposed that accounts for the origin of radio mini-
halos observed in some cooling flow clusters as related to electron re-acceleration by MHD …