- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/418/1
- Title:
- Radio continuum spectra in Virgo cluster region
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/418/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New radio continuum observations of galaxies in the Virgo cluster region at 4.85, 8.6, and 10.55GHz are presented. These observations are combined with existing measurements at 1.4 and 0.6GHz. The sample includes 81 galaxies where spectra with more than two frequencies could be derived. Galaxies that show a radio-FIR excess exhibit central activity (HII, LINER,AGN). The four Virgo galaxies with the highest absolute radio excess are found within 2 degrees of the center of the cluster. Galaxies showing flat radio spectra also host active centers. There is no clear trend between the spectral index and the galaxy's distance to the cluster center.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/106/1
- Title:
- Radio data in Dumbbell galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/106/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/134/355
- Title:
- Radio galaxies in 18 nearby Abell clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/134/355
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the use of the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to identify radio galaxies in 18 nearby Abell clusters. The listings extend from the cores of the clusters out to radii of 3Mpc (H_0_=75km/s/Mpc), which corresponds to 1.5 Abell radii and approximately 4 orders of magnitude in galaxy density. To create a truly useful catalog, we have collected optical spectra for nearly all of the galaxies lacking public velocity measurements. Consequently, we are able to discriminate between those radio galaxies seen in projection on the cluster and those that are in actuality cluster members. The resulting catalog consists of 329 cluster radio galaxies plus 138 galaxies deemed foreground or background objects, and new velocity measurements are reported for 273 of these radio galaxies. The motivation for the catalog is the study of galaxy evolution in the cluster environment. The radio luminosity function is a powerful tool in the identification of active galaxies, as it is dominated by star-forming galaxies at intermediate luminosities and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at higher luminosities. The flux limit of the NVSS allows us to identify AGNs and star-forming galaxies down to star formation rates less than 1M_{sun}_/yr. This sensitivity, coupled with the all-sky nature of the NVSS, allows us to produce a catalog of considerable depth and breadth. In addition to these data, we report detected infrared fluxes and upper limits obtained from IRAS data. It is hoped that this database will prove useful in a number of potential studies of the effect of environment on galaxy evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/647/A50
- Title:
- Radio halos in mass selected clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/647/A50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radio halos are synchrotron diffuse sources at the centre of a fraction of galaxy clusters. The study of large samples of clusters with adequate radio and X-ray data is necessary to investigate the origin of radio halos and their connection with the cluster dynamics and formation history. The aim of this paper is to compile a well-selected sample of galaxy clusters with deep radio observations to perform an unbiased statistical study of the properties of radio halos. We selected 75 clusters with M>=6x10^14^M_{sun}_ at z=0.08-0.33 from the Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich catalogue. Clusters without suitable radio data were observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and/or the Jansky Very Large Array to complete the information about the possible presence of diffuse emission. We used archival Chandra X-ray data to derive information on the clusters' dynamical states. This observational campaign led to the detection of several cluster-scale diffuse radio sources and candidates that deserve future follow-up observations. Here we summarise their properties and add information resulting from our new observations. For the clusters where we did not detect any hint of diffuse emission, we derived new upper limits to their diffuse flux. We have built the largest mass-selected (>80% complete in mass) sample of galaxy clusters with deep radio observations available to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A110
- Title:
- Radio images of CIZA J2242.8+5301
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/555/A110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Giant cluster radio relics are thought to form at shock fronts in the course of collisions between galaxy clusters. Via processes that are still poorly understood, these shocks accelerate or re-accelerate cosmic-ray electrons and might amplify magnetic fields. The best object to study this phenomenon is the galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301 as it shows the most undisturbed relic. By means of Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) data at seven frequencies spanning from 153MHz to 2272MHz, we study the synchrotron emission in this cluster. We aim at distinguishing between theoretical injection and acceleration models proposed for the formation of radio relics. We also study the head-tail radio sources to reveal the interplay between the merger and the cluster galaxies. We produced spectral index, curvature maps, and radio colour-colour plots and compared our data with predictions from models. We present one of the deepest 153MHz maps of a cluster ever produced, reaching a noise level of 1.5mJy/beam. We derive integrated spectra for four relics in the cluster, discovering extremely steep spectrum diffuse emission concentrated in multiple patches. We find a possible radio phoenix embedded in the relic to the south of the cluster. The spectral index of the northern relic retains signs of steepening from the front towards the back of the shock also at the radio frequencies below 600MHz. The spectral curvature in the same relic also increases in the downstream area. The data is consistent with the Komissarov-Gubanov injection models, meaning that the emission we observe is produced by a single burst of spectrally-aged accelerated radio electrons.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/390/289
- Title:
- Radio observations of A3158
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/390/289
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 1.4- and 2.5-GHz Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations of the galaxy cluster A3158 (z=0.0597) which is located within the central part of the Horologium-Reticulum supercluster (HRS). Spectroscopic data for the central part of the HRS suggest that A3158 is in a dynamically important position within the supercluster and that it is moving toward the double cluster system A3125/A3128 which marks the centre of the HRS. A total of 110 radio galaxies are detected in a 35-arcmin radius about the cluster at 1.4GHz, of which 30 are also detected at 2.5GHz.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/379/21
- Title:
- Radio-optically selected galaxy clusters I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/379/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The radiosource catalogs have been extracted from 31 NRAO VLA Sky Survey maps (NVSS, Condon et al., 1988AJ....115.1693C) over approximately 550 square degrees of sky in the region of the South Galactic Pole. File table1.dat contains the catalog of 13340 pointlike sources. For each source are given: Right Ascension and Declination, source name (if applicable), peak flux, flux rms from the fit, error on source position as estimated by the fitting algorithm, x and y pixel of the position where the peak has been detected on the map (starting position for the fit), control flags coming from the extraction algorithm, and name of the radio map where the source has been detected. The name is specified for (1) pointlike sources that are detected in a multiple system (name = DSnnnn or TSnnnn) (2) sources initially classified as components of a double system, which has been considered spurious on the basis of the distance between components (name = Cnnnn or DCnnnn). File table2.dat contains the catalog of 2662 double radiosources. For each source the following parameters are given both for the barycentre and the two components: Right Ascension and Declination, source name, peak flux, flux rms from the fit, error on source position as estimated by the fitting algorithm, distance between the components of the double system, x and y pixel of the position where the peak has been detected on the map (starting position for the fit), control flags coming from the extraction algorithm, and name of the radio map where the source has been detected.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/379/35
- Title:
- Radio-optically selected galaxy clusters. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/379/35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- File table1.dat contains data relative to spectroscopic and photometric observations of galaxies in 12 radio-optically selected candidate clusters. Observations have been acquired with the 3.6m ESO telescope, Chile. For each galaxy in the cluster, a sequential number, the magnitude in r-Gunn filter, the measured velocity, velocity rms, and notes to identify particular objects (emission galaxies, radiogalaxies and stars) are given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/1201
- Title:
- Radio properties of brightest cluster galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/453/1201
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We examine the radio properties of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in a large sample of X-ray selected galaxy clusters comprising the Brightest Cluster Sample (BCS), the extended BCS and ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-ray cluster catalogues. We have multifrequency radio observations of the BCG using a variety of data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Jansky Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array telescopes. The radio spectral energy distributions of these objects are decomposed into a component attributed to on-going accretion by the active galactic nuclei (AGN) that we refer to as 'the core', and a more diffuse, ageing component we refer to as the 'non-core'. These BCGs are matched to previous studies to determine whether they exhibit emission lines (principally H{alpha}), indicative of the presence of a strong cooling cluster core. We consider how the radio properties of the BCGs vary with cluster environmental factors. Line emitting BCGs are shown to generally host more powerful radio sources, exhibiting the presence of a strong, distinguishable core component in about 60 per cent of cases. This core component more strongly correlates with the BCG's [OIII] 5007{AA} line emission. For BCGs in line emitting clusters, the X-ray cavity power correlates with both the extended and core radio emission, suggestive of steady fuelling of the AGN over bubble-rise time-scales in these clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/882/69
- Title:
- Radio relic merging galaxy cluster substructures
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/882/69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Golovich et al. (2019, J/ApJS/240/39) present an optical imaging and spectroscopic survey of 29 radio relic merging galaxy clusters. In this paper, we study this survey to identify substructure and quantify the dynamics of the mergers. Using a combined photometric and spectroscopic approach, we identify the minimum number of substructures in each system to describe the galaxy populations and estimate the line-of-sight velocity difference between likely merging subclusters. We find that the line-of-sight velocity components of the mergers are typically small compared with the maximum 3D relative velocity (usually <1000km/s and often consistent with zero). We also compare our systems to n-body simulation analogs and estimate the viewing angle of the clean mergers in our ensemble. We find that the median system's separation vector lies within 40{deg} (17{deg}) at a 90% (50%) confidence level. This suggests that the merger axes of these systems are generally in or near the plane of the sky, matching findings in magnetohydrodynamical simulations. In 28 of the 29 systems we identify substructures in the galaxy population aligned with the radio relic(s) and presumed associated merger-induced shock. From this ensemble, we identify eight systems to include in a "gold" sample that is prime for further observation, modeling, and simulation study. Additional papers will present weak-lensing mass maps and dynamical modeling for each merging system, ultimately leading to new insight into a wide range of astrophysical phenomena at some of the largest scales in the universe.
