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Diffuse galaxy cluster emission at 168 MHz within the Murchison Widefield Array Epoch of Reionization 0-h field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2021

S. W. Duchesne*
Affiliation:
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P. O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
M. Johnston-Hollitt
Affiliation:
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
A. R. Offringa
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), PO Box 2, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, the Netherlands
G. W. Pratt
Affiliation:
AIM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Q. Zheng
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, China
S. Dehghan
Affiliation:
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P. O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
*
Author for correspondence: S. W. Duchesne, E-mail: stefanduchesne@gmail.com
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Abstract

We detect and characterise extended, diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters at 168 MHz within the Epoch of Reionization 0-h field: a $45^{\circ} \times 45^{\circ}$ region of the southern sky centred on R. A.${}= 0^{\circ}$, decl.${}=-27^{\circ}$. We detect 29 sources of interest; a newly detected halo in Abell 0141; a newly detected relic in Abell 2751; 4 new halo candidates and a further 4 new relic candidates; and a new phoenix candidate in Abell 2556. Additionally, we find nine clusters with unclassifiable, diffuse steep-spectrum emission as well as a candidate double relic system associated with RXC J2351.0-1934. We present measured source properties such as their integrated flux densities, spectral indices ($\alpha$, where $S_\nu \propto \nu^\alpha$), and sizes where possible. We find several of the diffuse sources to have ultra-steep spectra including the halo in Abell 0141, if confirmed, showing $\alpha \leq -2.1 \pm 0.1$ with the present data making it one of the steepest-spectrum haloes known. Finally, we compare our sample of haloes with previously detected haloes and revisit established scaling relations of the radio halo power ($P_{1.4}$) with the cluster X-ray luminosity ($L_{\textrm{X}}$) and mass ($M_{500}$). We find that the newly detected haloes and candidate haloes are consistent with the $P_{1.4}$$L_{\textrm{X}}$ and $P_{1.4}$$M_{500}$ relations and see an increase in scatter in the previously found relations with increasing sample size likely caused by inhomogeneous determination of $P_{1.4}$ across the full halo sample. We show that the MWA is capable of detecting haloes and relics within most of the galaxy clusters within the Planck catalogue of Sunyaev–Zel’dovich sources depending on exact halo or relic properties.

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Australia
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Figure 1. The central $\sim42^{\circ}$ of the Epoch of Reoinization 0-h field. Overlaid are the positions of galaxy clusters from the (Abell, Corwin, & Olowin 1989) catalogues, MCXC and the PSZ1. We cut the sample of clusters in an attempt to avoid the edges of the image where the noise is highest. The filled circles are coloured according to their redshift. Unfilled circles are those without a measured redshift. Note the side-lobe structure of the primary beam appearing in the corners of the image. The colourmap of the redshift distribution is an implementation of cubehelix (Green 2011).

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Table 1. Existing sky surveys used as auxiliary data to the EoR0 field.

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Table 2. Details of the 2.1-GHz ATCA observations of Abell S1063.

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Table 3. Sub-band image properties for the ATCA observations of Abell S1063.

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Table 4. Select physical properties of clusters found to host diffuse emission.

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Table 5. List of diffuse emission presented in this paper, in the order presented in Section 3.2.

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Figure 2. Abell 0013. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, starting at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.2 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$, all increasing with factors of 2. ‘A’ marks the relic. The dashed circle has a 1 Mpc radius centered on the cluster, and the linear scale is set at the cluster’s redshift.

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Figure 3. Diffuse emission within Abell 0022. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 21 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Image features as in Figure 2. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton image from the REXCESS survey with EoR0 contours overlaid as in the left panel.

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Figure 4. Candidate relic on the periphery of Abell 0033. The background is a PS1 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0, white, 3$\sigma_{\text{rms}}$ beginning at 6.9 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$ and a single grey, dashed, 2$\sigma_{\text{rms}}$ contour at 4.6 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. No TGSS emission is seen above the 3$\sigma_{\text{rms}}$ level of 25.8 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centre on the position of Abell 0033, and the dotted circled is centred on WHL J002712.5-193045, both with 1 Mpc radii at the reported redshifts. They are suspected to be the same cluster (see main text). The boxes indicate possible optical IDs for the diffuse emission.

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Figure 5. Abell 0085. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 49.7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 9.6 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton image with EoR0 contours overlaid as in the left panel. Note that the right panel has a smaller field of view and is centred to show the subcluster ‘A’. Both panels show the linear scale at the cluster’s redshift.

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Figure 6. Steep-spectrum emission at the centre of Abell 0122. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 12 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The linear sale is at the cluster’s redshift. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton image with EoR0 field contours overlaid as in the left panel.

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Figure 7. The centre of Abell 0133. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 15 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, 13.2 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The linear scale is at the redshift of the cluster, and Obj. A, ‘B’, and ‘C’ are discussed in the text.

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Figure 8. Radio halo at the centre of Abell 0141. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.8 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on the cluster with a 1 Mpc radius.

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Figure 9. Diffuse emission within Abell 2496. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 15 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. TGSS, blue, 12 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton data with EoR0 field contours overlaid as in the left panel. The dashed circle is centred on the MCXC coordinates with radius of 1 Mpc.

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Figure 10. Diffuse emission, Obj. A, in Abell 2556. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.4 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on Abell 2556 and the dotted circle on Abell 2554, each with radii of 1 Mpc. The inset is the PS1 data with its location indicated on the image as a dashed, white box. EoR0 field and NVSS contours are shown on the inset as in the main figure.

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Figure 11. Abell 2680 with a candidate halo marked with an ‘A’. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 11.1 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle has a 1 Mpc radius about the cluster centre.

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Figure 12. Candidate radio halo A and steep-spectrum source B within and nearby Abell 2693. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 12 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on the cluster and has a 1 Mpc radius.

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Figure 13. Diffuse emission within Abell 2721, marked with an ‘A’. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 8.1 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton X-ray image from the REXCESS survey with EoR0 contours overlaid as in the left panel. The dashed circle is centred on the cluster with a radius of 1 Mpc.

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Figure 14. Abell 2744 with giant radio halo and relic. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 12.9 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on the cluster with a radius of 1 Mpc.

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Figure 15. A candidate relic and a faint radio galaxy, near Abell 2751 and APMCC 039, marked as A and B. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on Abell 2751 and the dotted on APMCC 039, each with radii of 1 Mpc. The squares indicate galaxies with redshifts in the range $0.1 \leq z \leq 0.114$. The inset of Obj. A is the DES DR1 data with its location indicated by the dashed, white box. TGSS and NVSS contours are overlaid as in the main image.

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Figure 16. Candidate radio relic within Abell 2798. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.8 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The inset is the DES DR1 data with its location indicated by the dashed, white box. NVSS contours are overlaid as in the main image.

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Figure 17. Radio halo within Abell 2811, marked with an ‘A’. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 12.6 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton X-ray image of Abell 2811 with the EoR0 field contours overlaid as in the left panel. In both panels the linear scale is at the redshift of the cluster.

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Figure 18. The centre of Abell 4038.DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 20 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 20 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Marked objects are described in the text.

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Figure 19. The centre of Abell S0084. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 12 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton X-ray image from the REXCESS survey with EoR0 contours overlaid as in the left panel along with X-ray contours.

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Figure 20. Diffuse emission in Abell S1099. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 11.1 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The linear scale is at the redshift of Abell S1099. ‘A’ marks a likely embedded source.

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Figure 21. Candidate radio halo within Abell S1121. Left: DES DR1 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0, 15 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; smoothed SUMSS, red, beginning at 7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; and TGSS, purple, beginning at 13.8 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed and dotted circles are centred on the cluster with 1 Mpc radii at each of the reported redshifts. The squares and small circles indicate galaxies with available redshifts within $cz \approx 2\,000\,\text{km}\,\text{s}^{-1}$ at the two reported redshifts (see text). Right: Smoothed, archival Chandra data with EoR0 contours as in the left panel. Note that the right panel has a smaller field of view as the Chandra image does not cover the entire region shown in the left panel—the dotted and dashed circles are identical to those in the left panel.

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Figure 22. Diffuse emission within Abell S1136. DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 14.4 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The linear scale is at the cluster redshift.

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Figure 23. RXC J2351.0–1954. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 13.8 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed, blue circle is centred on the PSZ1 coordinates, and a dotted, yellow circle is centered on the X-ray coordinates, both with radii of 1 Mpc. ‘A’ and ‘B’ mark candidate relics, ‘C’ a candidate halo, and ‘D’ and ‘E’ are other radio sources mentioned in the text. The inset is the PS1 data with its location indicated on the image as a dashed, white box. The TGSS contours are shown on the inset as in the main figure. Right: A smaller field of view of the left panel a with PS1 RGB background, a cross to denote the cluster’s coordinates given by Chon & BÖhringer (2012), a star to denote the coordinates given by PSZ1, and squares showing galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the region.

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Figure 24. MACS J2243.3–0935 with radio halo. PS1 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 60 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 10.2 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on the cluster with a radius of 1 Mpc.

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Figure 25. Diffuse emission on the periphery of WHL J235151.0–085929 or centre of GMBCG J357.91841–08.97978. PS1 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 10 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; NVSS, red, beginning at 1.5 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; TGSS, blue, beginning at 11.7 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle is centred on the PSZ1 coordinates of WHL J235151.0–085929 with radius 1 Mpc. The dotted circle is centred on the cluster GMBCG J357.91841–08.97978 with the same 1 Mpc radius. The inset is the PS1 data with its location indicated on the image as a dashed, white box. The TGSS contours are shown on the inset as in the main figure.

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Figure 26. Abell S1063. Left: DSS2 RGB image with contours overlaid as follows: EoR0 field, white, beginning at 50 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; ATCA-stacked, red, beginning at $72\,\upmu \textrm{Jy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$; ATCA-tapered, blue, beginning at 1.08 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The small box indicates the BCG of the cluster. The inset is the DES DR1 data with its location indicated by the dashed, white box. ATCA contours are overlaid as in the main image. Right: Exposure corrected, smoothed XMM-Newton image with contours EoR0 field contours overlaid as in the left panel, but with TGSS contours, magenta, beginning at 7.8 $\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$. The dashed circle in both panels is centred on the cluster and has a radius of 1 Mpc.

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Figure 27. Left: The $P_{1.4}$$L_{\textrm{X}}$ scaling relation. Right: The $P_{1.4}$$M_{500}$ scaling relation. Error bars have been omitted for the sake of clarity. Unfilled markers are for clusters hosting haloes from the literature. Circles represent those clusters with measured spectral indices, and squares are those assumed to have the average spectral index $\langle \alpha \rangle = -1.47 \pm 0.30$. The dark-purple upper limits are from haloes presented in this paper. The green diamonds are for haloes in GMBCG J357.91841–08.97978 and Abell S1121. The fits presented are from (a) Cassano et al. (2013) and (b)/(c) this work—see text for details. The shaded regions represent 95% confidence intervals.m

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Table 6. Raw scatter between cluster halo samples with best-fitting BCES regression lines to the scaling relations by (a) Cassano et al. (2013) and (b) this work.

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Figure 28. X-ray luminosity against mass for clusters hosting radio haloes. The solid, black fit (c) is made using the BCES orthogonal method for clusters with haloes with the mauve-shaded region the 95% confidence interval as per Figure 27. The dashed, black fit (a) is from Pratt et al. (2009) for clusters within the REXCESS sample using the same BCES orthogonal fitting method, assuming a redshift of 0. The dotted, black fit (b) is the same fit from Pratt et al. but assuming a redshift of 1. The red, up-pointing triangles indicate clusters with predicted $L_\textrm{X}$ below measured values, and blue, down-pointing triangles are clusters with predicted $L_\textrm{X}$ above measured values. This sample is the global sample with the addition of the clusters found to host haloes (or candidates) from this work.

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Figure 29. Cluster mass against redshift for clusters within the MCXC and PSZ1 catalogues. The filled points are those using the PSZ1 $M_{\textrm{YZ,}500}$ measurements and unfilled points are those using the MCXC $M_{500}$ measurements. Where clusters appear in both catalogues we use the PSZ1 $M_{\textrm{YZ,}500}$ measurements. The olive-green and blue-shaded regions indicate the limits at which 1 Mpc haloes or relics can be detected given the $P_{1.4}$$M_{500}$ scaling relations found by Cassano et al. (2013) and de Gasperin et al. (2014), respectively. These are determined assuming a $3\sigma_\textrm{rms}$ detection of $3\times2.3$$\text{mJy}\,\text{beam}^{-1}$, beam size of 2.3 arcmin, and spectral indices between $-0.9 \leq \alpha \leq -2.1$, where a steeper spectral index requires a lower mass cluster. The solid and dashed curves indicate limits for $\alpha=-1.47$ for haloes and relics, respectively.

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Table A.1. Clusters known to host radio haloes as of July 2017 used in Section 4.2.1.