First look Murchison Widefield Array observations of Abell 3667

Author

Hindson, L. ; Johnston-Hollitt, M. ; Hurley-Walker, N. ; Morgan, J. ; Buckley, K. ; Carretti, E. ; Dwarakanath, K.S. ; Bell, Michael ; Bernardi, G. ; Bhat, Ritesh ; Briggs, F. ; Deshpande, A.A. ; Ewall-Wice, A. ; Feng, Liqiang ; Hazelton, B. ; Jacobs, Dan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Chem. & Phys. Sci., Victoria Univ. of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low frequency interferometric radio telescope, operating in the remote Murchison Radio Observatory in Western Australia. In this paper we present the first MWA observations of the well known radio relics in Abell 3667 (A3667) between 120 and 226 MHz. We clearly detect the radio relics in A3667 and present flux estimates and spectral indices for these features. The average spectral index of the north-west (NW) and south-east (SE) relics is -0.9 ± 0.1 between 120 and 1400 MHz. We are able to resolve spatial variation in the spectral index of the NW relic from -1.7 to -0.4, which is consistent with results found at higher frequencies.

Keywords

astronomical spectra; clusters of galaxies; radiosources (astronomical); Abell 3667; Murchison Radio Observatory observation data; Murchison Widefield Array data; Western Australia; average spectral index; flux estimates; frequency 120 MHz to 1400 MHz; low frequency interferometric radio telescope data; north-west relics; radio relics; south-east relics; spatial variation; Arrays; Astrophysics; Australia; Educational institutions; Indexes; Observatories; Sensitivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6930053

Filename

6930053