Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-05-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
26 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, Minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1086/524132
The Hubble constant estimated from the combined analysis of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray observations of galaxy clusters is systematically lower than those from other methods by 10-15 percent. We examine the origin of the systematic underestimate using an analytic model of the intracluster medium (ICM), and compare the prediction with idealistic triaxial models and with clusters extracted from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We identify three important sources for the systematic errors; density and temperature inhomogeneities in the ICM, departures from isothermality, and asphericity. In particular, the combination of the first two leads to the systematic underestimate of the ICM spectroscopic temperature relative to its emission-weighed one. We find that these three systematics well reproduce both the observed bias and the intrinsic dispersions of the Hubble constant estimated from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.
Kawahara Hajime
Kitayama Tetsu
Sasaki Shin
Suto Yasushi
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