Issue |
A&A
Volume 670, February 2023
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Article Number | A156 | |
Number of page(s) | 16 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244021 | |
Published online | 17 February 2023 |
Tempestuous life beyond R500: X-ray view on the Coma cluster with SRG/eROSITA
II. Shock and relic
1
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85741 Garching, Germany
e-mail: churazov@mpa-garching.mpg.de
2
Space Research Institute (IKI), Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia
3
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 München, Germany
4
Ioffe Institute, Politekhnicheskaya St. 26, Saint Petersburg 194021, Russia
5
ASC of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskiy Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
Received:
13
May
2022
Accepted:
24
November
2022
This is the second paper in a series of studies of the Coma cluster using the SRG/eROSITA X-ray data obtained during the calibration and performance verification phase of the mission. Here, we focus on the region adjacent to the radio source 1253+275 (radio relic, RR, hereafter). We show that the X-ray surface brightness exhibits its steepest gradient at ∼79′ (∼2.2 Mpc ≈ R200c), which is almost co-spatial to the outer edge of the RR. As in the case of several other relics, the Mach number of the shock derived from the X-ray surface brightness profile (MX ≈ 1.9) appears to be lower than needed to explain the slope of the integrated radio spectrum in the diffusive shock acceleration model (MR ≈ 3.5) if the magnetic field is uniform and the radiative losses are fast. However, the shock geometry is plausibly much more complicated than a spherical wedge centered on the cluster, given the non-trivial correlation between radio, X-ray, and SZ images. While the complicated shock geometry alone might cause a negative bias in MX, we speculate on a few other possibilities that may affect the MX − MR relation, including the shock substructure that might be modified by the presence of non-thermal filaments stretching across the shock and the propagation of relativistic electrons along the non-thermal filaments with a strong magnetic field. We also discuss the “history” of the radio galaxy NGC 4789, which is located ahead of the relic in the context of the Coma-NGC 4839 merger scenario.
Key words: galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: clusters: individual: Coma / shock waves / galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium / acceleration of particles / X-rays: galaxies: clusters
© E. Churazov et al. 2023
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