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Galaxy clusters morphology with Zernike polynomials: the first application on $\textit{Planck}$ Compton parameter maps

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-10-13 v1

Abstract

The study of the morphology of 2D projected maps of galaxy clusters is a suitable approach to infer, from real data, the dynamical state of those systems. We recently developed a new method to recover the morphological features in galaxy cluster maps which consists of an analytical modelling through the Zernike polynomials. After the first validation of this approach on a set of high-resolution mock maps of the Compton parameter, yy, from hydrodynamically simulated galaxy clusters in THE THREE HUNDRED project, we apply the Zernike modelling on yy-maps of local (z<0.1z < 0.1) galaxy clusters observed by the PlanckPlanck satellite. With a single parameter collecting the main information of the Zernike modelling, we classify their morphology. A set of mock PlanckPlanck-like yy-maps, generated from THE THREE HUNDRED clusters, is also used to validate our indicator with a proper dynamical state classification. This approach allows us to test the efficiency of the Zernike morphological modelling in evaluating the dynamical population in the real PlanckPlanck sample.

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@article{arxiv.2310.07759,
  title  = {Galaxy clusters morphology with Zernike polynomials: the first application on $\textit{Planck}$ Compton parameter maps},
  author = {Valentina Capalbo and Marco De Petris and Weiguang Cui and Antonio Ferragamo and Florian Ruppin and Gustavo Yepes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07759},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

To appear in Proc. of the mm Universe 2023 conference, Grenoble (France), June 2023, published by F. Mayet et al. (Eds), EPJ Web of conferences, EDP Sciences

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