2012/06/30 by M. Brüggen, M. Bruggen, R. J. van Weeren +2 · 43 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Adaptive mesh refinement #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Cluster (spacecraft) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Galaxy cluster #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Hydrostatic equilibrium #Redshift #Shock (circulatory) #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2012.01304.x
published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 425(1), L76-L80 (Oxford University Press) · accepted by MNRAS
arxiv created 2012/07/18 · openalex publication_date 2012/08/20 · arxiv updated 2015/06/05 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract The newly discovered galaxy cluster 1RXS J0603.3+4214 hosts a 1.9 Mpc long, bright radio relic with a peculiar linear morphology. Using hydrodynamical N-body adaptive mesh refinement simulations of the merger between three initially hydrostatic clusters in an idealized set-up, we are able to reconstruct the morphology of the radio relic. Based on our simulation, we can constrain the merger geometry, predict lensing mass measurements and X-ray observations. Comparing such models to X-ray, redshift and lensing data will validate the geometry of this complex merger which helps in constraining the parameters for shock acceleration of electrons that produces the radio relic.