Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-04-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
19 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Minor changes to tex file
Scientific paper
We explore the possibility of detecting radio emission in the \emph{cosmic web} by analyzing shock waves in the MareNostrum cosmological simulation. This requires a careful calibration of shock finding algorithms in Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics simulations, which we present here. Moreover, we identify the elements of the cosmic web, namely voids, walls, filaments and clusters with the use of the SpineWeb technique, a procedure that classifies the structure in terms of its topology. Thus, we are able to study the Mach number distribution as a function of its environment. We find that the median Mach number, for clusters is $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{clusters}}\approx1.8$, for filaments is $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{filaments}}\approx 6.2$, for walls is $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{walls}}\approx 7.5$, and for voids is $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{voids}}\approx 18$. We then estimate the radio emission in the cosmic web using the formalism derived in Hoeft & Br\"{u}ggen (2007). We also find that in order to match our simulations with observational data (e.g., NVSS radio relic luminosity function), a fraction of energy dissipated at the shock of $\xi_{\mathrm{e}}=0.0005$ is needed, in contrast with the $\xi_{\mathrm{e}}=0.005$ proposed by Hoeft et al. (2008). We find that 41% of clusters with $M \ge 10^{14} M_{\odot}$ host diffuse radio emission in the form of radio relics. Moreover, we predict that the radio flux from filaments should be $S_{150 MHz}\sim 0.12$ $\mu$Jy at a frequency of 150 MHz.
Aragon-Calvo Miguel Angel
Araya-Melo Pablo A.
Brueggen Marcus
Hoeft Matthias
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