A2255: the First Detection of Filamentary Polarized Emission in a Radio Halo

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2004-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411720v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200400113

A deep radio observation of the A2255 cluster of galaxies has been carried out at 1.4 GHz with the Very Large Array synthesis telescope. Thanks to the excellent (u,v) coverage and sensitivity achieved by our observation, the low brightness diffuse extended sources in the cluster (radio halo and relic) have been imaged with unprecedented resolution and dynamic range. We find that the radio halo has filamentary structures that are strongly polarized. The fractional linear polarization reaches levels of $\simeq$ 20$-$40% and the magnetic fields appear ordered on scales of $\sim$400 kpc. This is the first successful attempt to detect polarized emission from a radio halo and provides strong evidence that in this cluster the magnetic field is ordered on large scales.

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