Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-12-01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 color figures, ApJL in press
Scientific paper
Recent measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) angular power spectrum from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) demonstrate the importance of understanding baryon physics when using the SZ power spectrum to constrain cosmology. This is challenging since roughly half of the SZ power at l=3000 is from low-mass systems with 10^13 h^-1 M_sun < M_500 < 1.5x10^14 h^-1 M_sun, which are more difficult to study than systems of higher mass. We present a study of the thermal pressure content for a sample of local galaxy groups from Sun et al. (2009). The group Y_{sph, 500} - M_500 relation agrees with the one for clusters derived by Arnaud et al. (2010). The group median pressure profile also agrees with the universal pressure profile for clusters derived by Arnaud et al. (2010). With this in mind, we briefly discuss several ways to alleviate the tension between the measured low SZ power and the predictions from SZ templates.
Donahue Megan
Forman William
Jones Christine
Sarazin Craig
Sehgal Neelima
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