Simulating the toothbrush: Evidence for a triple merger of galaxy clusters

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2012
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Schlagworte:
  • Radio
  • Clusters
  • Diffuse radio
  • Galaxies
  • Stars
  • Planets
  • Galaxies: clusters: general
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium
  • X-rays: galaxies: clusters
  • Large-scale structure of Universe
  • Radio
  • Clusters
  • Diffuse radio
  • Galaxies
  • Stars
  • Planets
Beschreibung:
  • The newly discovered galaxy cluster 1RXS J0603.3+4214 hosts a 1.9 Mpc long, bright radio relic with a peculiar linear morphology. Using hydrodynamical N-body adaptive mesh refinement simulations of the merger between three initially hydrostatic clusters in an idealized set-up, we are able to reconstruct the morphology of the radio relic. Based on our simulation, we can constrain the merger geometry, predict lensing mass measurements and X-ray observations. Comparing such models to X-ray, redshift and lensing data will validate the geometry of this complex merger which helps in constraining the parameters for shock acceleration of electrons that produces the radio relic.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Quellsystem:
Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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