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arxiv: 2606.24738 · v1 · pith:BBKCOLSSnew · submitted 2026-06-23 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO

Probing Merger Shocks in Galaxy Clusters in the SKA Era

Arpan Pal , Ruta Kale , Gabriella Di Gennaro , Francesco de Gasperin , Swarna Chatterjee , Majidul Rahaman , Ramananda Santra , Mamta Pandey-Pommier
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Abhirup Datta Kenda Knowles Nasmi S. Anand
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Merger shocks in galaxy clusters produce radio relics that trace particle acceleration and magnetic fields, with SKA set to resolve open questions on their physics and evolution.

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Galaxy cluster mergers release vast gravitational energy that drives shocks through the hot gas between galaxies. These shocks accelerate cosmic ray electrons and compress magnetic fields, sometimes creating giant radio-emitting structures known as radio relics. Current pathfinder telescopes have linked many relics to shocks but left basic questions about how particles gain energy and how the structures change over time unanswered. The paper reviews this evidence and shows how the SKA's sensitivity in radio continuum, polarization, and wide surveys, paired with X-ray data, will enable detailed studies of single clusters and large populations to tackle those questions.

Core claim

Merger shocks accelerate cosmic ray electrons and compress magnetic fields in the intracluster medium, producing Mpc-scale synchrotron radio structures called radio relics that act as tracers of merger dynamics, particle acceleration, and magnetic field evolution, yet key aspects of the underlying micro-physics and time evolution remain unresolved; SKA-Low and SKA-Mid observations in continuum and polarization, together with X-ray data, will make significant progress on these issues through targeted studies and population surveys.

What carries the argument

Radio relics: Mpc-scale synchrotron radio structures produced when merger shocks accelerate cosmic ray electrons and compress magnetic fields, serving as direct tracers of shock properties.

If this is right

  • Detailed polarization maps of individual relics will constrain the geometry and strength of compressed magnetic fields behind shocks.
  • Wide-field SKA surveys will yield statistical samples of relics to track how their properties evolve with cosmic time and cluster mass.
  • Combined radio and X-ray observations of science verification targets will test models of electron acceleration efficiency at shocks.
  • Staged SKA deployments from AA0.5 onward will allow early verification of relic detection limits and spectral index measurements.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If SKA data confirm diffusive shock acceleration as the dominant process, models of cosmic ray energy budgets in clusters would need revision to include higher efficiencies.
  • Population statistics from SKA could connect relic occurrence rates to predictions of merger frequencies in cosmological simulations.
  • Insights into revived fossil plasma (radio phoenices) might extend to understanding how AGN activity influences the broader intracluster medium energy balance.

Load-bearing premise

The link between observed radio relics and merger shocks, established from current pathfinder data, will hold and allow SKA sensitivities to directly answer the listed questions about micro-physics without major new interpretive barriers.

What would settle it

Finding a clear radio relic in a merging cluster that shows no corresponding shock front in X-ray temperature or density maps, or failing to detect expected polarization patterns in SKA data on known relics.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.24738 by Abhirup Datta, Arpan Pal, Francesco de Gasperin, Gabriella Di Gennaro, Kenda Knowles, Majidul Rahaman, Mamta Pandey-Pommier, Nasmi S. Anand, Ramananda Santra, Ruta Kale, Swarna Chatterjee.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An example of a classic merger system in Abell 3667 , adapted from de Gasperin et al. (2022). The diffuse blue emission represents the XMM-Newton background-subtracted and exposure-corrected 0.5–2.0 keV image, with A and B indicating the two subclusters. The radio relics are shown in red. MS1 and MS2 mark the positions of the two merger shocks, while ES1 and ES2 indicate the expected locations of the equat… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Top: High-resolution (2.1 ′′ × 1.8 ′′) Stokes I observation of CIZA J2242.8+5301 in the 1–2 GHz band, with polarization electric field vectors at 2.7 ′′ resolution shown in red (Di Gennaro et al., 2021b). The vectors are corrected for Faraday rotation, and their lengths are proportional to the intrinsic polarization fraction (scale shown in the bottom-right corner). Black arrows in the two panels mark the … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of sensitivities of the various SKAO arrays for SKA-Low. The sensitivities for 4 hours integration time are shown in blue and the confusion noise in red circles. The sizes of the circles scale relative to the major axes of the actual beam sizes that are 5.5 ′′ ×3.0 ′′ , 5.5 ′′ ×4.7 ′′ and 5.5 ′′ ×4.3 ′′ for AA2, AA* and AA4, respectively. The annotated values in kpc correspond to the linear size… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of sensitivities of the various SKAO arrays for SKA-Mid for which the confusion noise (red circles) is less than the sensitivity (blue) for a 10h observation. Much longer observations would be possible where the confusion noise is well below the 10h sensitivity. The sizes of the circles scale relative to the major axes of the actual beam sizes that are 3.5 ′′ ×3.0 ′′ (AA* ), 2.9 ′′ ×2.4 ′′ (AA* … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Scaling relations for single/multiple radio relics. Left panel: radio power vs mass. Right panel: radio power vs largest linear size. Data points are taken from Jones et al. (2023) and Stroe et al. (2025). high-𝑧 relics than current LOFAR and MeerKAT surveys detect (Di Gennaro et al., 2021a; Jones et al., 2023; Kolokythas et al., 2025), suggesting either a large population of low-power relics below current… view at source ↗
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Galaxy cluster mergers represent the most energetic phenomena in the Universe since the Big Bang releasing gravitational potential energy of $\sim 10^{63-64}$ erg, injecting turbulence and driving shocks through the intracluster medium (ICM). These merger shocks can accelerate cosmic ray electrons and compress magnetic fields, sometimes producing Mpc-scale synchrotron radio structures known as radio relics. Radio relics are powerful tracers of merger dynamics, particle acceleration, and magnetic field evolution, yet fundamental questions about the underlying physics and their time evolution remain unresolved. In this chapter, we review the current understanding of cluster merger shocks and their radio signatures, presenting the observational evidence from the SKA pathfinders and precursors, linking radio relics to shocks alongside outstanding theoretical challenges. We also consider related shock-influenced phenomena: radio phoenices from revived fossil AGN plasma and Gently Re-Energised Tails. Further, we outline the directions of investigation using the sensitivities of the SKA-Low and Mid complemented with X-ray observations that will allow us to make significant progress in understanding the cluster merger shocks. Detailed studies of individual targets in continuum and polarization and studies of populations of relics using wide surveys will both provide insights to the micro-physics and cosmic evolution of merger shocks. We present SKAO capabilities across staged deployments starting from AA0.5 to AA4 and identify science verification targets that will illuminate the physics of cluster merger shocks in the SKA era

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript is a review chapter summarizing the energetics of galaxy cluster mergers, the role of merger shocks in accelerating cosmic-ray electrons and producing Mpc-scale radio relics via synchrotron emission, the observational links established by SKA pathfinders and precursors, related phenomena including radio phoenices and Gently Re-Energised Tails, outstanding microphysical and evolutionary questions, and the capabilities of SKA-Low and SKA-Mid (across AA0.5 to AA4 deployments) combined with X-ray data to address those questions through targeted continuum/polarization studies and population surveys; it identifies specific science verification targets.

Significance. If the synthesis of pathfinder evidence and the outlined observational strategy hold, the review will be useful for guiding SKA-era planning in astro-ph.HE by consolidating current understanding of relic-shock connections and explicitly naming deployment-stage capabilities plus verification targets; this structured roadmap for micro-physics and cosmic-evolution studies is a concrete strength.

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript, accurate summary of its scope, and recommendation to accept. No major comments were raised that require addressing.

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full rationale

This manuscript is a review chapter summarizing pathfinder observations linking merger shocks to radio relics, listing open questions, and outlining SKA capabilities. It contains no equations, derivations, fitted parameters, quantitative predictions, or ansatzes. All claims rest on external cited evidence rather than internal reduction to the paper's own inputs. No self-citation chains, uniqueness theorems, or self-definitional steps are load-bearing. The text is self-contained as a survey of existing literature and future prospects.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The review rests on established domain knowledge of intracluster medium physics and shock acceleration without introducing new free parameters, axioms beyond standard astrophysics, or invented entities.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Merger shocks in the ICM accelerate cosmic ray electrons and compress magnetic fields to produce observable radio relics
    This link is invoked in the abstract as the basis for treating relics as tracers of merger dynamics.

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