Far-infrared-radio relation in cluster galaxies at intermediate redshift

TL;DR

This study investigates the far-infrared-radio correlation in cluster galaxies at intermediate redshift to understand how dense environments influence galaxy emission properties compared to field galaxies.

Contribution

It provides the first measurement of the far-infrared-radio relation in a massive cluster at intermediate redshift, highlighting environmental effects on galaxy emission.

Findings

Cluster galaxies show excess radio emission relative to far-infrared emission.

The far-infrared-radio relation differs from that in field galaxies.

Environmental effects influence galaxy emission properties at intermediate redshift.

Abstract

The radio luminosities at 1.4 GHz is tightly correlated with the far-infrared luminosities for various galaxy types (e.g. [16, 6, 2]) over a wide range of redshift (see e.g. [5, 1, 15, 8, 7]). The relationship is widely believed to be driven by the internal star formation activity. Radio emission from these galaxies are predominantly produced from the synchrotron emission of cosmic-ray electrons accelerated in supernova shocks. The infrared emission is due to ultraviolet light from young massive stars that is absorbed and re-radiated by dust [3]. A correlation is found also in local clusters but cluster galaxies appears to have excess radio emission relative to the amount of far-infrared emission [9, 13, 11]. In this work, we measure the far-infrared-radio relationship in a massive cluster to test how this relationship changes at intermediate z between the field and a high-density cluster environment.