Abstract

In this paper we study the possibility of probing the low-energy part of the spectrum of non-thermal electrons in galaxy clusters by detecting their non-thermal bremsstrahlung (NTB) emission in the soft gamma ray band, using instruments like e-ASTROGAM. Using the Coma cluster as a reference case, we find that, for very low values of the minimum energy of the electrons, in principle the NTB is detectable, but this situation is possible only for conditions that can be maintained only for a short time compared to the cluster lifetime. The possibility of constraining the low energy spectrum of non-thermal electrons through NTB is therefore hard to achieve in next years.

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