Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-02-14
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 1131
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 13 figures. MNRAS, in press
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04405.x
We report and discuss the results of a 22 cm radio survey carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) covering the A3528 complex, a chain formed by the merging ACO clusters A3528-A3530-A3532, located in the central region of the Shapley Concentration. Simultaneous 13 cm observations are also presented. Our final catalogue includes a total of 106 radio sources above the flux density limit of 0.8 mJy. By cross correlation with optical and spectroscopic catalogues we found 32 optical counterparts, nine of them belonging tothe A3528 complex. We explored the effects of cluster mergers on the radio emission properties of radio galaxies by means of the radio luminosity function (RLF) and radio source counts. We found that the radio source counts are consistent with the background counts, as already found for the A3558 complex (Paper III). The RLF for this complex is consistent, both in shape and normalisation, with the general cluster luminosity function for early-type galaxies derived by Ledlow & Owen (LO96). This result is different from what we obtained for the A3558 merging complex, whose RLF is significantly lower than LO96. We propose that the different stage of the merger is responsible for the different RLFs in the two cluster complexes in the core of the Shapley Concentration. The early stage of merger for the A3528 complex, proposed by many authors, may have not yet affected the radio properties of cluster galaxies, while in the more much advanced merger in the A3558 region we actually see the effects of this process on the radio emission.
Bardelli Sandro
Hunstead Richard W.
Morganti Rafaella
Venturi Tiziana
Zambelli G.
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