Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-08-31
New Astron.Rev. 46 (2002) 135-140
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to appear in Life Cycles of Radio Galaxies, ed. J. Biretta et al., New Astronomy Reviews; 8 pages, including 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1387-6473(01)00168-3
New adaptive mesh refinement N-body + hydrodynamics numerical simulations are used to illustrate the complex and changing cluster environments in which many radio galaxies live and evolve. Groups and clusters of galaxies form at the intersections of filaments where they continue to accrete gas and dark matter to the present day. The accretion process produces shocks, turbulence, and transonic bulk flows forming a kind of stormy weather within the intracluster medium (ICM). Radio sources embedded within the stormy ICM form distorted, complex morphologies as observed in recent VLA cluster surveys. We show that the bending of wide-angle tailed radio sources can be understood as the result of recent cluster-subcluster mergers. We use new MHD simulations to illustrate how cluster radio halos can be formed by the shocks and turbulence produced during cluster mergers. Finally, we discuss new observations of distant Abell clusters that reveal a class of weak radio sources, probably starbursts, likely produced during the formation of the clusters as they accrete material from the supercluster environment.
Bryan Greg
Burns O. Jr. J.
Gomez Percy
Loken Chris
Norman Michael L.
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