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Another shock for the Bullet cluster, and the source of seed electrons for radio relics

Another shock for the Bullet cluster, and the source of seed electrons for radio relics

With Australia Telescope Compact Array observations, we detect a highly elongated Mpc-scale diffuse radio source on the eastern periphery of the Bullet cluster 1E0657-55.8, which we argue has the positional, spectral and polarimetric characteristics of a radio relic. This powerful relic (2.3+/-0.1 x 10^25 W Hz^-1) consists of a bright …