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We present gas constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements in a sample of eleven X-ray and infrared (IR) selected galaxy clusters at z >=1, using data from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA). The cylindrically integrated…

We present a parameterized model of the intra-cluster medium that is suitable for jointly analysing pointed observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and X-ray emission in galaxy clusters. The model is based on assumptions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. R. Allison , A. C. Taylor , M. E. Jones , S. Rawlings , S. T. Kay

Foreseeing the era of high spatial resolution measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) in clusters of galaxies, we present a prototype analysis of this sort combined with Chandra X-ray data. It is applied specifically to RX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kitayama , E. Komatsu , N. Ota , T. Kuwabara , Y. Suto , K. Yoshikawa , M. Hattori , H. Matsuo

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect has long been recognized as a powerful cosmological probe. Using the BAHAMAS and MACSIS simulations to obtain $>10,000$ simulated galaxy groups and clusters, we compute three temperature measures and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-03 Elizabeth Lee , Jens Chluba , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect offers a method, independent of X-ray, for measuring the temperature of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the hottest systems. Here, using N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of three galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott T. Kay , Leila C. Powell , Andrew R. Liddle , Peter A. Thomas

We present two non-parametric deprojection methods aimed at recovering the three-dimensional density and temperature profiles of galaxy clusters from spatially resolved thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) and X-ray surface brightness maps, thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ameglio , S. Borgani , E. Pierpaoli , K. Dolag

We present thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) measurements for 42 galaxy clusters observed at 150 GHz with the APEX-SZ experiment. For each cluster, we model the pressure profile and calculate the integrated Comptonization $Y$ to…

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a promising tool to study physical properties of the hot X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters. To date, most SZ observations have been interpreted in combination with X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Morandi , Daisuke Nagai , Wei Cui

We introduce GODMAX (Gas thermODynamics and Matter distribution using jAX), a novel code designed to calculate correlations between the cosmological matter distribution and various gas thermodynamic quantities. Utilizing the extensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Shivam Pandey , Jaime Salcido , Chun-Hao To , J. Colin Hill , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Eric J. Baxter , Ian G. McCarthy

Sub-structures in the hot gas of galaxy clusters are related to their formation history and to the astrophysical processes at play in the intracluster medium (ICM). The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is directly sensitive to the…

We use high-resolution hydrodynamic re-simulations to investigate the properties of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters. We compare results obtained using different physical models for the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Bonaldi , G. Tormen , K. Dolag , L. Moscardini

We report measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in three high-redshift (0.89 < z < 1.03), X-ray selected galaxy clusters. The observations were obtained at 30 GHz during the commissioning period of a new, eight-element…

Galaxy clusters provide us with important information about the cosmology of our universe. Observations of the X-ray radiation or of the SZ effect allow us to measure the density and temperature of the hot intergalactic medium between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Diana Juncher , Steen H. Hansen , Andrea V. Macciò

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large-volume FLAMINGO simulation suite to determine whether SZ $y$-weighted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Scott T. Kay , Joey Braspenning , Jens Chluba , John C. Helly , Roi Kugel , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is an important probe of clusters of galaxies, and has the attractive property of being proportional to the thermal energy content of the intracluster medium. With the assistance of X-ray data, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Birkinshaw

We build a simple, {\it top-down} model for the gas density and temperature profiles for galaxy clusters. The gas is assumed to be in hydrostatic equilibrium along with a component of non-thermal pressure taken from simulations and the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anya Chaudhuri , Subhabrata Majumdar

Galaxy clusters can be used as powerful cosmological probes, provided one can obtain accurate mass estimates, which requires a precise knowledge of the underlying astrophysics of galaxy clusters. For these purposes, spatially resolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 R. Wicker , M. De Petris , A. Ferragamo , I. Bartalucci , G. Yepes , E. Rasia , R. Adam , W. Cui , F. Mayet , L. Perotto , M. Muñoz-Echeverría

We present observations from the Small Array of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) of eight high X-ray luminosity galaxy cluster systems selected from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS) sample.We detect the…

We present a self consistent method to perfom a joint analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and weak gravitational lensing observation of galaxy clusters. The spatial distribution of the cluster main constituents is described by a perturbative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 O. Doré , F. R. Bouchet , Y. Mellier , R. Teyssier

We introduce the Marenostrum-MultiDark SImulations of galaxy Clusters (MUSIC) Dataset, one of the largest sample of hydrodynamically simulated galaxy clusters with more than 500 clusters and 2000 groups. The objects have been selected from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Stefan Gottloeber , Luca Lamagna , Barbara Comis