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K. Roettiger, J. O. Burns (University of Missouri-Columbia)
We present a numerical model for the extended radio sources in A3667 based on new 3-dimensional MHD/N-body simulations. The X-ray and optical analyses of A3667 indicate that it has undergone a recent subcluster merger event. We believe that the Mpc-scale radio sources identified in A3667 are also a consequence of the merger. Our previous numerical simulations show that mergers often produce large-scale shocks and turbulence capable of both magnetic field amplification and in-situ reacceleration of relativistic particles. If true, our model demonstrates that these radio structures, separated by ~5.2h-150 Mpc, are in fact causally linked via a slightly off-axis merger that occurred nearly in the plane of the sky approximately 1 Gyr ago with a subcluster having a total mass equal to ~20% of the primary cluster.