XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title The Physics of Cosmic Shocks: The NW Merger Shock and Radio Relic in Abell 3667
Proposal Category Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 065305
Number of Observations 1
Total exposure time (ks) 99

PI DETAILS
PI Prof Craig Sarazin
Institute University of Virginia
Country UNITED STATES

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
A. Finoguenov UNITED STATES
K. Nakazawa JAPAN
D. Wik UNITED STATES
T. Clarke UNITED STATES

ABSTRACT
Abell 3667 is the archetype of a merging cluster with radio relics. The NW relic is the brightest cluster relic or halo known. This region was imaged with XMM in AO-7. We detected a X-ray brightness and hardness jump at the edge of the NW relic. This could be due to a merger shock, or to inverse Compton (IC) emission from the relic; both are consistent within the errors. We propose a long observation to determine the contributions of shock and IC emission. Comparison of the shock properties and the radio relic will be a critical test of the shock acceleration model for relics. The relic IC emission will give the magnetic field and cosmic ray energy of the relic. We will determine the efficiency of particle acceleration, and provide the first data on the physics of cosmic shock fronts.

PAPERS
Authors marked in red are (co-)investigators in the proposal

Classification of papers are:
- CLASS 1:   papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations
- CLASS 2: papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis
- CLASS 3: further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base)
- CLASS 4: comments and suggestions from PI

CLASS 1 (18 references)
  1. " Merger shocks in Abell 3667 and the Cygnus A cluster "
    Sarazin, C. L.; Finoguenov, A.; Wik, D. R.;
    2013 - Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.334, Issue 4-5, p.346
    Number of Citations: 15
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2013AN....334..346S
    DOI: 10.1002/asna.201211854

  2. " Serendipitous UV source catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of Swift "
    Yershov, V. N.;
    2014 - Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 354, Issue 1, pp.97-101
    Number of Citations: 3
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2014Ap&SS.354...97Y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10509-014-1944-5

  3. " The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue "
    Flesch, Eric W.;
    2016 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 33, id.e052 pp.
    Number of Citations: 17
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2016PASA...33...52F
    DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2016.44

  4. " X-Ray Morphological Analysis of the Planck ESZ Clusters "
    Lovisari, Lorenzo; Forman, William R.; Jones, Christine; Ettori, Stefano; Andrade-Santos, Felipe; Arnaud, Monique; Democles, Jessica; Pratt, Gabriel W.; Randall, Scott; Kraft, Ralph;
    2017 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 846, Issue 1, article id. 51, pp. (2017).
    Number of Citations: 26
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017ApJ...846...51L
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa855f

  5. " Iron abundance distribution in the hot gas of merging galaxy clusters "
    Urdampilleta, I.; Mernier, F.; Kaastra, J. S.; Simionescu, A.; de Plaa, J.; Kara, S.; Ercan, E. N.;
    2019 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 629, id.A31, pp.
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2019A&A...629A..31U
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935452

  6. " Multiwavelength, machine learning, and parallax studies of X-ray binaries in three local group galaxies "
    Urdampilleta, Igone;
    2019 - PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 2019
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2019PhDT........14U
    DOI: null

  7. " Comparing different mass estimators for a large subsample of the Planck-ESZ clusters "
    Lovisari, L.; Ettori, S.; Sereno, M.; Schellenberger, G.; Forman, W. R.; Andrade-Santos, F.; Jones, C.;
    2020 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 644, id.A78, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2020A&A...644A..78L
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038718

  8. " X-Ray Scaling Relations for a Representative Sample of Planck-selected Clusters Observed with XMM-Newton "
    Lovisari, Lorenzo; Schellenberger, Gerrit; Sereno, Mauro; Ettori, Stefano; Pratt, Gabriel W.; Forman, William R.; Jones, Christine; Andrade-Santos, Felipe; Randall, Scott; Kraft, Ralph;
    2020 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 892, Issue 2, id.102, pp. (2020)
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2020ApJ...892..102L
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7997

  9. " The thermalization of massive galaxy clusters "
    Sereno, Mauro; Lovisari, Lorenzo; Cui, Weiguang; Schellenberger, Gerrit;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 507, Issue 4, pp.5214-5223
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.507.5214S
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2435

  10. " Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning "
    Zhang, Yanxia; Zhao, Yongheng; Wu, Xue-Bing;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, Issue 4, pp.5263-5273
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.503.5263Z
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab744

  11. " MeerKAT view of the diffuse radio sources in Abell 3667 and their interactions with the thermal plasma "
    de Gasperin, F.; Rudnick, L.; Finoguenov, A.; Wittor, D.; Akamatsu, H.; Brueggen, M.; Chibueze, J. O.; Clarke, T. E.; Cotton, W.; Cuciti, V.; Dominguez-Fernandez, P.; Knowles, K.; O'Sullivan, S. P.; Sebokolodi, L.;
    2022 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 659, id.A146, pp.
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022A&A...659A.146D
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142658

  12. " Constraining the mass and redshift evolution of the hydrostatic mass bias using the gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters "
    Wicker, R.; Douspis, M.; Salvati, L.; Aghanim, N.;
    2023 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 674, id.A48, pp.
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2023A&A...674A..48W
    DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2306.09732

  13. " New 511 keV Line Data Provide Strongest sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints "
    De la Torre Luque, Pedro; Balaji, Shyam; Silk, Joseph;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 973, Issue 1, id.L6, 10 pp.
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...973L...6D
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad6d60

  14. " From Active Stars to Black Holes: A Discovery Tool for Galactic X-Ray Sources "
    Rodriguez, Antonio C.;
    2024 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 136, Issue 5, id.054201, 17 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PASP..136e4201R
    DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad357c

  15. " Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton "
    Luque, Pedro De la Torre; Balaji, Shyam; Carenza, Pierluca;
    2024 - Physical Review D, Volume 109, Issue 10, article id.L101305
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PhRvD.109j1305L
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1215

  16. " Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae "
    Luque, Pedro De la Torre; Balaji, Shyam; Carenza, Pierluca;
    2024 - Physical Review D, Volume 109, Issue 10, article id.103028
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PhRvD.109j3028L
    DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slae038

  17. " Importance of Cosmic-Ray Propagation on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints "
    De la Torre Luque, Pedro; Balaji, Shyam; Koechler, Jordan;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 968, Issue 1, id.46, 16 pp.
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...968...46D
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4494

  18. " Probing ultralight primordial black hole dark matter with XMM telescopes "
    Guo, Jun; Yuan, Qiang; Zhu, Bin;
    2024 - Nuclear Physics, Section B, Volume 1005, id.116601
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024NuPhB100516601G
    DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.07661