The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. IX. High Radio Activity in a Merging Cluster

0536731 - ASÚ 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Moravec, Emily - Gonzalez, A. H. - Dicker, S. R. - Alberts, S. - Brodwin, M. - Clarke, T. E. - Connor, Th. - Decker, B. - Devlin, M. - Eisenhardt, P. R. M. - Mason, B. S. - Mo, W. L. - Mroczkowski, T. - Pope, A. - Romero, C. E. - Sarazin, C. - Sievers, J. - Stanford, S. A. - Stern, D. - Wylezalek, D. - Zago, F.
The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. IX. High Radio Activity in a Merging Cluster.
Astrophysical Journal. Roč. 898, č. 2 (2020), č. článku 145. ISSN 0004-637X. E-ISSN 1538-4357
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2018106
Institutional support: RVO:67985815
Keywords : early-type galaxies * x-ray-clusters * star-formation
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Impact factor: 5.877, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aba0b2

We present a multiwavelength investigation of the radio galaxy population in the galaxy cluster MOO J1506+5137 atz = 1.09 0.03, which in previous work we identified as having multiple complex radio sources. The combined data set used in this work includes data from the Low-Frequency Array Two-meter Sky Survey, NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey. We find that there are five radio sources, which are all located within 500 kpc (similar to 1 ') of the cluster center and have radio luminositiesP(1.4 GHz) > 1.6 x 10(24)W Hz(-1). The typical host galaxies are among the highest stellar mass galaxies in the cluster. The exceptional radio activity among the massive galaxy population appears to be linked to the dynamical state of the cluster. The galaxy distribution suggests an ongoing merger, with a subgroup found to the northwest of the main cluster. Furthermore, two of the five sources are classified as bent-tail sources, with one being a potential wide-angle tail/hybrid morphology radio source, indicating a dynamic environment. The cluster also lies in a region of the mass-richness plane occupied by other merging clusters in the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. The data suggest that during the merger phase, radio activity can be dramatically enhanced, which would contribute to the observed trend of increased radio activity in clusters with increasing redshift.
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