Shocks and blast waves are conceivably driven into the intracluster medium filling galaxy groups and clusters by powerful outbursts of active galactic nuclei or quasars in the member galaxies; the first footprints of shock fronts have been tentatively traced out with X-ray imaging. We show how overpressures in the blasts behind the shock can prove the case and also provide specific marks of the nuclear activity: its strength, its current stage, and the nature of its prevailing output. We propose to detect these marks with the aimed pressure probe constituted by the resolved Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We compute and discuss the outcomes to be expected in nearby and distant sources at different stages of their activity.

Searching for AGN-driven Shocks in Galaxy Clusters / Cavaliere, A.; Lapi, A.. - In: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 0004-637X. - 647:1, Part 2(2006), pp. L5-L8. [10.1086/507270]

Searching for AGN-driven Shocks in Galaxy Clusters

Cavaliere, A.;Lapi, A.
2006-01-01

Abstract

Shocks and blast waves are conceivably driven into the intracluster medium filling galaxy groups and clusters by powerful outbursts of active galactic nuclei or quasars in the member galaxies; the first footprints of shock fronts have been tentatively traced out with X-ray imaging. We show how overpressures in the blasts behind the shock can prove the case and also provide specific marks of the nuclear activity: its strength, its current stage, and the nature of its prevailing output. We propose to detect these marks with the aimed pressure probe constituted by the resolved Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We compute and discuss the outcomes to be expected in nearby and distant sources at different stages of their activity.
2006
647
1, Part 2
L5
L8
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607021
Cavaliere, A.; Lapi, A.
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