Browsing by Author "Missaglia, V."

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    Completing the 3CR Chandra Snapshot Survey: Extragalactic Radio Sources at High Redshift
    (2020) Jimenez-Gallardo, A.; Massaro, F.; Prieto, M. A.; Missaglia, V.; Stuardi, C.; Paggi, A.; Ricci, F.; Kraft, R. P.; Liuzzo, E.; Tremblay, G. R.; Baum, S. A.; O'Dea, C. P.; Wilkes, B. J.; Kuraszkiewicz, J.; Forman, W. R.; Harris, D. E.
    We present the analysis of nine radio sources belonging to the Third Cambridge Revised catalog (3CR) observed with Chandra during Cycle 20 in the redshift range between 1.5 and 2.5. This study completes the 3CR Chandra Snapshot Survey thus guaranteeing the X-ray coverage of all 3CR sources identified to date. This sample lists two compact steep spectrum sources, four radio galaxies, and three quasars. We detected X-ray emission from all nuclei, with the only exception of 3C 326.1 and 3C 454.1 and from radio lobes in six out of nine sources at a level of confidence larger than similar to 5 sigma. We measured X-ray fluxes and luminosities for all nuclei and lobes in the soft (0.5-1 keV), medium (1-2 keV), and hard (2-7 keV) X-ray bands. Since the discovered X-ray extended emission is spatially coincident with the radio structure in all cases, its origin could be due to inverse Compton (IC) scattering of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) occurring in radio lobes.
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    Raining in MKW 3 s: A Chandra-MUSE Analysis of X-Ray Cold Filaments around 3CR 318.1
    (2021) Jimenez-Gallardo, A.; Massaro, F.; Balmaverde, B.; Paggi, A.; Capetti, A.; Forman, W. R.; Kraft, R. P.; Baldi, R. D.; Mahatma, V. H.; Mazzucchelli, C.; Missaglia, V.; Ricci, F.; Venturi, G.; Baum, S. A.; Liuzzo, E.; O'Dea, C. P.; Prieto, M. A.; Rottgering, H. J. A.; Sani, E.; Sparks, W. B.; Tremblay, G. R.; van Weeren, R. J.; Wilkes, B. J.; Harwood, J. J.; Mazzotta, P.; Kuraszkiewicz, J.
    We present the analysis of X-ray and optical observations of gas filaments observed in the radio source 3CR 318.1, associated with NGC 5920, the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of MKW 3 s, a nearby cool core galaxy cluster. This work is one of the first X-ray and optical analyses of filaments in cool core clusters carried out using MUSE observations. We aim at identifying the main excitation processes responsible for the emission arising from these filaments. We complemented the optical VLT/MUSE observations, tracing the colder gas phase, with X-ray Chandra observations of the hotter highly ionized gas phase. Using the MUSE observations, we studied the emission line intensity ratios along the filaments to constrain the physical processes driving the excitation, and, using the Chandra observations, we carried out a spectral analysis of the gas along these filaments. We found a spatial association between the X-ray and optical morphology of these filaments, which are colder and have lower metal abundance than the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM), as already seen in other BCGs. Comparing with previous results from the literature for other BCGs, we propose that the excitation process that is most likely responsible for these filaments emission is a combination of star formation and shocks, with a likely contribution from self-ionizing, cooling ICM. Additionally, we conclude that the filaments most likely originated from AGN-driven outflows in the direction of the radio jet.
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    The Cavity of 3CR 196.1: Hα Emission Spatially Associated with an X-Ray Cavity
    (2022) Jimenez-Gallardo, A.; Sani, E.; Ricci, F.; Mazzucchelli, C.; Balmaverde, B.; Massaro, F.; Capetti, A.; Forman, W. R.; Kraft, R. P.; Venturi, G.; Gendron-Marsolais, M.; Prieto, M. A.; Marconi, A.; Pena-Herazo, H. A.; Baum, S. A.; O'Dea, C. P.; Lovisari, L.; Gilli, R.; Torresi, E.; Paggi, A.; Missaglia, V.; Tremblay, G. R.; Wilkes, B. J.
    We present a multifrequency analysis of the radio galaxy 3CR 196.1 (z=0.198), associated with the brightest galaxy of the cool-core cluster CIZAJ0815.4-0303. This nearby radio galaxy shows a hybrid radio morphology and an X-ray cavity, all signatures of a turbulent past activity, potentially due to merger events and active galactic nuclei (AGN) outbursts. We present results of the comparison between Chandra and Very Large Telescope Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer data for the inner region of the galaxy cluster, on a scale of tens of kpc. We discovered H alpha + [N ii]lambda 6584 emission spatially associated with the X-ray cavity (at similar to 10 kpc from the galaxy nucleus) instead of with its rim. This result differs from previous discoveries of ionized gas surrounding X-ray cavities in other radio galaxies harbored in galaxy clusters and could represent the first reported case of ionized gas filling an X-ray cavity, either due to different AGN outbursts or to the cooling of warm (10(4) < T <= 10(7) K) AGN outflows. We also found that the H alpha, [N ii]lambda lambda 6548, 6584, and [S ii]lambda lambda 6718, 6733 emission lines show an additional redward component, at similar to 1000 km s(-1) from rest frame, with no detection in H beta or [O iii]lambda lambda 4960, 5008. We believe the most likely explanation for this redward component is the presence of a background gas cloud as there appears to be a discrete difference of velocities between this component and the rest frame.