A new radio analysis of the double radio relic (=pairs of expanding merger shock waves, ~Megaparsec wide) in the merging cluster of galaxies MACS
J1752.0+4440
by M. Della Chiesa et al. today on #astroph https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02410

Deep multi-wavelength radio observations allow to study how radio emitting electrons age in different part of the relic, helping to better understand the plasma properties in regions deeply affected by shocks

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