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Vacca, V.; Murgia, M.; Govoni, F.; Loi, F.; Vazza, F.; Finoguenov, A.; Carretti, E.; Feretti, L.; Giovannini, G.; Concu, R.; Melis, A.; Gheller, C.; Paladino, R.; Poppi, S.; Valente, G.; Bernardi, G.; Boschin, W.; Brienza, M.; Clarke, T. E.; Colafrancesco, S.; Enßlin, T. A.; Ferrari, C.; de Gasperin, F.; Gastaldello, F.; Girardi, M.; Gregorini, L.; Johnston-Hollitt, M.; Junklewitz, H.; Orrù, E.; Parma, P.; Perley, R.; Taylor, G. B.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 479, Issue 1, p.776-806
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2018
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41
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Description
We report the detection of diffuse radio emission which might be
connected to a large-scale filament of the cosmic web covering a 8°
× 8° area in the sky, likely associated with a z ≈ 0.1
overdensity traced by nine massive galaxy clusters. In this work, we
present radio observations of this region taken with the Sardinia Radio
Telescope. Two of the clusters in the field host a powerful radio halo
sustained by violent ongoing mergers and provide direct proof of
intracluster magnetic fields. In order to investigate the presence of
large-scale diffuse radio synchrotron emission in and beyond the galaxy
clusters in this complex system, we combined the data taken at 1.4 GHz
with the Sardinia Radio Telescope with higher resolution data taken with
the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. We found 28 candidate new sources with a size
larger and X-ray emission fainter than known diffuse large-scale
synchrotron cluster sources for a given radio power. This new population
is potentially the tip of the iceberg of a class of diffuse large-scale
synchrotron sources associated with the filaments of the cosmic web. In
addition, we found in the field a candidate new giant radio galaxy.
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Galaxies in the universe can be located in different environments, some of them are isolated or in low density regions and they are usually called field galaxies. The others can be located in galaxy associations, going from loose groups to clusters or even superclusters of galaxies. One of the foremost challenges of the modern Astrophysics is to
Jairo
Méndez Abreu