Wilber, A. ; Bruggen, M. ; Bonafede, A. ; Rafferty, D. ; Savini, F. ; Shimwell, T. ; van Weeren, R. J. ; Botteon, A. ; Cassano, R. ; Brunetti, G. ; De Gasperin, F. ; Wittor, D. ; Hoeft, M. ; Birzan, L.
(2018)
Search for low-frequency diffuse radio emission around a shock in the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0744.9+3927.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476
(3).
ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
Merging galaxy clusters produce low Mach number shocks in the intracluster medium. These shocks can accelerate electrons to relativistic energies that are detectable at radio frequencies.
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