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RE-ACCELERATION MODEL FOR THE ‘SAUSAGE’ RADIO RELIC KCI 등재 SCOPUS

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천문학회지 (Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society)
한국천문학회 (Korean Astronomical Society)
초록

The Sausage radio relic is the arc-like radio structure in the cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301, whose observed properties can be best understood by synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons accelerated at a merger-driven shock. However, there remain a few puzzles that cannot be explained by the shock acceleration model with only in-situ injection. In particular, the Mach number inferred from the observed radio spectral index, Mradio  4.6, while the Mach number estimated from X-ray observations, MX−ray  2.7. In an attempt to resolve such a discrepancy, here we consider the re-acceleration model in which a shock of Ms  3 sweeps through the intracluster gas with a pre-existing population of relativistic electrons. We find that observed brightness profiles at multi frequencies provide strong constraints on the spectral shape of pre-existing electrons. The models with a power-law momentum spectrum with the slope, s  4.1, and the cutoff Lorentz factor, e,c  3−5×104, can reproduce reasonably well the observed spatial profiles of radio fluxes and integrated radio spectrum of the Sausage relic. The possible origins of such relativistic electrons in the intracluster medium remain to be investigated further.

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Abstract
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MODEL
    2.1. Physics of DSA
    2.2. Injection-Dominated versus Re-AccelerationDominated Model
    2.3. Observed Properties of the Sausage Relic
3. NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS
    3.1. DSA Simulations for 1D Spherical Shocks
    3.2. Shock Parameters
4. RESULTS OF DSA SIMULATIONS
    4.1. Surface Brightness and Spectral Index Profiles
    4.2. Integrated Spectrum
5. SUMMARY
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저자
  • Hyesung Kang(Department of Earth Sciences, Pusan National University) Corresponding author