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Signatures in a Giant Radio Galaxy of a Cosmological Shock Wave at Intersecting Filaments of Galaxies | | Torsten A. Ensslin
; Patrick Simon
; Peter L. Biermann
; Ulrich Klein
; Sven Kohle
; Philipp P. Kronberg
; Karl-Heinz Mack
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19 Dec 2000 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 549 (2001) L39-L42 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | MPA, Garching), Patrick Simon (MPIfR, Bonn), Peter L. Biermann (MPIfR, Bonn), Ulrich Klein (Uni Bonn), Sven Kohle (Uni Bonn), Philipp P. Kronberg (UoT, Toronto), Karl-Heinz Mack (IRA del CNR, Bologna | | Abstract: | Sensitive images of low-level, Mpc-sized radio cocoons offer new opportunities to probe large scale intergalactic gas flows outside clusters of galaxies. New radio images of high surface brightness sensitivity at strategically chosen wavelengths of the giant radio galaxy NGC 315 (Mack et al. 1997,1998) reveal significant asymmetries and particularities in the morphology, radio spectrum and polarization of the ejected radio plasma. We argue that the combination of these signatures provides a sensitive probe of an environmental shock wave. Analysis of optical redshifts in NGC 315 vicinity confirms its location to be near, or at a site of large-scale flow collisions in the 100 Mpc sized Pisces-Perseus Supercluster region. NGC 315 resides at the intersection of several galaxy filaments, and its radio plasma serves there as a `weather station’ (Burns 1998) probing the flow of the elusive and previously invisible IGM gas. If our interpretation is correct, this is the first indication for a shock wave in flows caused by the cosmological large scale structure formation, which is located in a filament of galaxies. The possibility that the putative shock wave is a source of gamma-rays and ultra high energy cosmic rays is briefly discussed. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0012404 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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