A $\mathcal{M}\gtrsim 3$ shock in `El Gordo' cluster and the origin of the radio relic

A. Botteon, F. Gastaldello, G. Brunetti +1

We present an X-ray and radio study of the famous `El Gordo', a massive and distant ($z=0.87$) galaxy cluster. In the deep (340 ks) Chandra observation, the cluster appears with an…