2015A&A...580A..97C -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 580A, 97-97 (2015/8-1)
Occurrence of radio halos in galaxy clusters. Insight from a mass-selected sample.
CUCITI V., CASSANO R., BRUNETTI G., DALLACASA D., KALE R., ETTORI S. and VENTURI T.
Abstract (from CDS):
Giant radio halos (RH) are diffuse Mpc-scale synchrotron sources detected in some massive and merging galaxy clusters. An unbiased study of the statistical properties of RHs is crucial to constraining their origin and evolution. We investigate the occurrence of RHs and its dependence on the cluster mass in a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)-selected sample of galaxy clusters, which is nearly a mass-selected sample. Moreover, we analyse the connection between RHs and merging clusters. We selected from the Planck SZ catalogue clusters with M≥6x1014M☉ at z=0.08-0.33 and we searched for the presence of RHs using the NVSS for z<0.2 and the GMRT RH survey (GRHS) and its extension (EGRHS) for 0.2<z<0.33. We used archival Chandra X-ray data to derive information on the dynamical status of the clusters. We confirm that RH clusters are merging systems while the majority of clusters without RH are relaxed, thus supporting the idea that mergers play a fundamental role in the generation of RHs. We find evidence for an increase in the fraction of clusters with RHs with the cluster mass and this is in line with expectations derived on the basis of the turbulence re-acceleration scenario. Finally, we discuss the effect of the incompleteness of our sample on this result.
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radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - galaxies: clusters: general - radio continuum: general - X-rays: galaxies: clusters
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