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PROPERTIES AND SPECTRAL BEHAVIOUR OF CLUSTER RADIO HALOS

  • FERETTI L. (Istituto di Radioastronomia) ;
  • BRUNETTI G. (Istituto di Radioastronomia) ;
  • GIOVANNINI G. (Istituto di Radioastronomia, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Univ. Bologna) ;
  • KASSIM N. (Naval Research Laboratory) ;
  • ORRU E. (Dipartimento di Fisica, Univ.) ;
  • SETTI G. (Istituto di Radioastronomia, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Univ. Bologna)
  • Published : 2004.12.01
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Abstract

Several arguments have been presented in the literature to support the connection between radio halos and cluster mergers. The spectral index distributions of the halos in A665 and A2163 provide a new strong confirmation of this connection, i.e. of the fact that the cluster merger plays an important role in the energy supply to the radio halos. Features of the spectral index (flattening and patches) are indication of a complex shape of the radiating electron spectrum, and are therefore in support of electron reacceleration models. Regions of flatter spectrum are found to be related to the recent merger. In the undisturbed cluster regions, instead, the spectrum steepens with the distance from the cluster center. The plot of the integrated spectral index of a sample of halos versus the cluster temperature indicates that clusters at higher temperature tend to host halos with flatter spectra. This correlation provides further evidence of the connection between radio emission and cluster mergers.

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