Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies and Radio Halos

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1999-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905179v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 2 Figures, Latex (using epsfig,texas), to appear in the Proceedings of the XIX Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrop

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We calculate the fluxes of radio, hard X-rays and gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies, in the context of a secondary electron model (SEM). In the SEM the radiating electrons are produced by the decay of charged pions in cosmic ray (CR) interactions with the intracluster medium, while gamma ray emission is mainly contributed by the decay of neutral pions. We specifically applied our calculations to the case of the Coma cluster, and found that the combined radio and hard X-ray fluxes can be explained in the SEM only if very small values of the intracluster magnetic field ($B\sim 0.1\mu G$) are assumed, which in turn imply a large energy density of the parent CRs. The consequent gamma-ray fluxes easily exceed the EGRET limit at 100 MeV. This conclusion can be avoided only if most of the hard X-ray emission from Coma is not produced by Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS).

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