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PECULIAR VELOCITY CONSTRAINTS FROM FIVE-BAND SZ EFFECT MEASUREMENTS TOWARD RX J1347.5−1145 WITH MUSIC AND BOLOCAM FROM THE CSO.

Authors :
Jack Sayers
Michael Zemcov
Jason Glenn
Sunil R. Golwala
Philip R. Maloney
Seth R. Siegel
Jordan Wheeler
Clint Bockstiegel
Spencer Brugger
Nicole G. Czakon
Peter K. Day
Thomas P. Downes
Ran P. Duan
Jiansong Gao
Matthew I. Hollister
Albert Lam
Henry G. LeDuc
Benjamin A. Mazin
Sean G. McHugh
David A. Miller
Source :
Astrophysical Journal; 4/1/2016, Vol. 820 Issue 2, p1-1, 1p
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

We present Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect measurements from wide-field images toward the galaxy cluster RX J1347.5−1145 obtained from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory with the Multiwavelength Submillimeter Inductance Camera at 147, 213, 281, and 337 GHz and with Bolocam at 140 GHz. As part of our analysis, we have used higher frequency data from Herschel–SPIRE and previously published lower frequency radio data to subtract the signal from the brightest dusty star-forming galaxies behind RX J1347.5−1145 and from the AGN in RX J1347.5−1145’s BCG. Using these five-band SZ effect images, combined with X-ray spectroscopic measurements of the temperature of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) from Chandra, we constrain the ICM optical depth to be and the ICM line of sight peculiar velocity to be km s<superscript>−1</superscript>. The errors for both quantities are limited by measurement noise rather than calibration uncertainties or astrophysical contamination, and significant improvements are possible with deeper observations. Our best-fit velocity is in good agreement with one previously published SZ effect analysis and in mild tension with the other, although some or all of that tension may be because that measurement samples a much smaller cluster volume. Furthermore, our best-fit optical depth implies a gas mass slightly larger than the Chandra-derived value, implying the cluster is elongated along the line of sight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0004637X
Volume :
820
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Astrophysical Journal
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
114110094
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/101