MEASUREMENT OF GALAXY CLUSTER INTEGRATED COMPTONIZATION AND MASS SCALING RELATIONS WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE
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McDonald, Michael A.
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January 2015
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The Astrophysical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Saliwanchik, B. R., T. E. Montroy, K. A. Aird, M. Bayliss, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, S. Bocquet, et al. “MEASUREMENT OF GALAXY CLUSTER INTEGRATED COMPTONIZATION AND MASS SCALING RELATIONS WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE.” The Astrophysical Journal 799, no. 2 (January 22, 2015): 137. © 2015 The American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
We describe a method for measuring the integrated Comptonization (Y [subscript SZ]) of clusters of galaxies from measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in multiple frequency bands and use this method to characterize a sample of galaxy clusters detected in the South Pole Telescope (SPT) data. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to fit a β-model source profile and integrate Y [subscript SZ] within an angular aperture on the sky. In simulated observations of an SPT-like survey that include cosmic microwave background anisotropy, point sources, and atmospheric and instrumental noise at typical SPT-SZ survey levels, we show that we can accurately recover β-model parameters for inputted clusters. We measure Y [subscript SZ] for simulated semi-analytic clusters and find that Y [subscript SZ] is most accurately determined in an angular aperture comparable to the SPT beam size. We demonstrate the utility of this method to measure Y [subscript SZ] and to constrain mass scaling relations using X-ray mass estimates for a sample of 18 galaxy clusters from the SPT-SZ survey. Measuring Y [subscript SZ] within a 0.'75 radius aperture, we find an intrinsic log-normal scatter of 21% ± 11% in Y [subscript SZ] at a fixed mass. Measuring Y [subscript SZ] within a 0.3 Mpc projected radius (equivalent to 0.'75 at the survey median redshift z = 0.6), we find a scatter of 26% ± 9%. Prior to this study, the SPT observable found to have the lowest scatter with mass was cluster detection significance. We demonstrate, from both simulations and SPT observed clusters that Y [subscript SZ] measured within an aperture comparable to the SPT beam size is equivalent, in terms of scatter with cluster mass, to SPT cluster detection significance.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/137
