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Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations between Bolocam Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Chandra X-ray Measurements

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-11 v2

Abstract

We present scaling relations between the integrated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) signal, YSZY_{\rm SZ}, its X-ray analogue, YXMgasTXY_{\rm X}\equiv M_{\rm gas}T_{\rm X}, and total mass, MtotM_{\rm tot}, for the 45 galaxy clusters in the Bolocam X-ray-SZ (BOXSZ) sample. All parameters are integrated within r2500r_{2500}. Y2500Y_{2500} values are measured using SZE data collected with Bolocam, operating at 140 GHz at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO). The temperature, TXT_{\rm X}, and mass, Mgas,2500M_{\rm gas,2500}, of the intracluster medium are determined using X-ray data collected with Chandra, and MtotM_{\rm tot} is derived from MgasM_{\rm gas} assuming a constant gas mass fraction. Our analysis accounts for several potential sources of bias, including: selection effects, contamination from radio point sources, and the loss of SZE signal due to noise filtering and beam-smoothing effects. We measure the Y2500Y_{2500}--YXY_{\rm X} scaling to have a power-law index of 0.84±0.070.84\pm0.07, and a fractional intrinsic scatter in Y2500Y_{2500} of (21±7)%(21\pm7)\% at fixed YXY_{\rm X}, both of which are consistent with previous analyses. We also measure the scaling between Y2500Y_{2500} and M2500M_{2500}, finding a power-law index of 1.06±0.121.06\pm0.12 and a fractional intrinsic scatter in Y2500Y_{2500} at fixed mass of (25±9)%(25\pm9)\%. While recent SZE scaling relations using X-ray mass proxies have found power-law indices consistent with the self-similar prediction of 5/3, our measurement stands apart by differing from the self-similar prediction by approximately 5σ\sigma. Given the good agreement between the measured Y2500Y_{2500}--YXY_{\rm X} scalings, much of this discrepancy appears to be caused by differences in the calibration of the X-ray mass proxies adopted for each particular analysis.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1406.2800,
  title  = {Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations between Bolocam Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Chandra X-ray Measurements},
  author = {N. G. Czakon and J. Sayers and A. Mantz and S. R. Golwala and T. P. Downes and P. M. Koch and K. -Y. Lin and S. M. Molnar and L. A. Moustakas and T. Mroczkowski and E. Pierpaoli and J. A. Shitanishi and S. Siegel and K. Umetsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2800},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

31 pages, 15 figures, accepted by ApJ 04/11/2015. This version is appreciably different from the original submission: it includes an entirely new appendix, extended discussion, and much of the material has been reorganized