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Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles, as Determined by Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam I: Joint Analysis Technique

Authors :
Alexander Young
Nicole G. Czakon
Mark J. Devlin
Tony Mroczkowski
Tracy E. Clarke
Jack Sayers
J. Sievers
Sunil Golwala
Simon Dicker
Phillip Korngut
Craig L. Sarazin
Erik D. Reese
Brian Mason
Charles Romero
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
American Astronomical Society, 2015.

Abstract

We present a technique to constrain galaxy cluster pressure profiles by jointly fitting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) data obtained with MUSTANG and Bolocam for the clusters Abell 1835 and MACS0647. Bolocam and MUSTANG probe different angular scales and are thus highly complementary. We find that the addition of the high resolution MUSTANG data can improve constraints on pressure profile parameters relative to those derived solely from Bolocam. In Abell 1835 and MACS0647, we find gNFW inner slopes of $\gamma = 0.36_{-0.21}^{+0.33}$ and $\gamma = 0.38_{-0.25}^{+0.20}$, respectively when $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are constrained to 0.86 and 4.67 respectively. The fitted SZE pressure profiles are in good agreement with X-ray derived pressure profiles.<br />Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to ApJ

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....97c74bbccfc2521b3813c361cd4b40bd