Radio Observations of Merging Clusters in the Shapley Concentration

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, to appear in proceedings of the Ringberg workshop on "Diffuse Thermal and Relativistic Plasma in

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In this paper we present the first results of a radio survey at 22 cm in the central region of the Shapley Concentration, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. In order to study the effect of merging on the statistical properties of radio galaxies, and the relation between merging and the existence of {\it relic} and {\it halo} type radio sources, we observed the two complexes of merging clusters centered on A3528 and on A3558. Our results show that the radio source counts in these regions, characterised by very high optical overdensity and major cluster mergers, do not differ from the background source counts. This suggests that the merging phenomenon does not influence the probability of a galaxy to become radio surce. Furthermore we investigated the possibility that the extended radio source J1324-3138 is a relic, applying the model recently proposed by Ensslin et al. (1998). Our analysis shows that the properties of J1324-3138 are consistent with the idea that the source is a relic located on the shock front between A3556 and a smaller group accreting onto the main cluster concentration.

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