Constraints on the magnetic field in the hadronic scenario for the origin of the radio halo in the A1795 galaxy cluster
Abstract
The radio halo in the cool-core galaxy cluster, A1795, has recently been proposed to be of hadronic origin, because it extends on megaparsec scales, where no turbulence is expected to be injected into a relaxed cluster. In this paper we aim to constrain the properties of nonthermal protons and the cluster magnetic field strength under the hypothesis of a hadronic origin for the radio halo in the light of the available gamma-ray upper limits for this cluster. We assumed a radial profile and several central magnetic field intensity values, then derived the corresponding properties of the nonthermal protons necessary to reproduce the flux density and surface brightness profile of the radio halo. For the obtained results, we calculated the corresponding gamma-ray emission and compared it with the Fermi-LAT upper limit. We find that, for a magnetic field energy radial profile following that of the thermal gas, central magnetic field intensities B0<5 μG imply a gamma-ray emission at or above the Fermi-LAT upper limit. Therefore, larger values of the magnetic field are necessary in the hadronic scenario. For these values the radial profile of nonthermal protons must slightly decrease with radius, though more slowly than that of the thermal gas. For smaller values of the magnetic field, different mechanisms for producing or accelerating the nonthermal electrons are necessary.
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BibTeX
@misc{marchegiani2026constraints,
title = {{Constraints on the magnetic field in the hadronic scenario for the origin of the radio halo in the A1795 galaxy cluster}},
author = {P. Marchegiani and V. Vacca and F. Loi and F. Govoni and M. Murgia},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.24397},
eprint = {2607.24397},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24397},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Constraints on the magnetic field in the hadronic scenario for the origin of the radio halo in the A1795 galaxy cluster
AU - P. Marchegiani
AU - V. Vacca
AU - F. Loi
AU - F. Govoni
AU - M. Murgia
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24397
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24397
AB - The radio halo in the cool-core galaxy cluster, A1795, has recently been proposed to be of hadronic origin, because it extends on megaparsec scales, where no turbulence is expected to be injected into a relaxed cluster. In this paper we aim to constrain the properties of nonthermal protons and the cluster magnetic field strength under the hypothesis of a hadronic origin for the radio halo in the light of the available gamma-ray upper limits for this cluster. We assumed a radial profile and several central magnetic field intensity values, then derived the corresponding properties of the nonthermal protons necessary to reproduce the flux density and surface brightness profile of the radio halo. For the obtained results, we calculated the corresponding gamma-ray emission and compared it with the Fermi-LAT upper limit. We find that, for a magnetic field energy radial profile following that of the thermal gas, central magnetic field intensities B_0<5 μG imply a gamma-ray emission at or above the Fermi-LAT upper limit. Therefore, larger values of the magnetic field are necessary in the hadronic scenario. For these values the radial profile of nonthermal protons must slightly decrease with radius, though more slowly than that of the thermal gas. For smaller values of the magnetic field, different mechanisms for producing or accelerating the nonthermal electrons are necessary.
ER -