Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Increment in Massive Galaxy Clusters

Details Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Increment in Massive Galaxy Clusters Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Increment in Massive Galaxy Clusters

2003-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306300v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 346 (2003) 1179

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, final MNRAS version

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2003.07163.x

We have detected the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) increment at 850 microns in two galaxy clusters (Cl 0016+16 and MS 1054.4-0321) using SCUBA (Sub-millimetre Common User Bolometer Array) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Fits to the isothermal \beta model yield a central Compton y parameter of (2.2 \pm 0.7) x 10^{-4} and a central 850 micron flux of \Delta I_{0} = 2.2 \pm 0.7 mJy/beam in Cl 0016. This can be combined with decrement measurements to infer y = (2.38 \pm_{0.34}^{0.36}) x 10^{-4} and v_{pec} = 400 \pm_{1400}^{1900} km/s. In MS 1054 we find a peak 850 micron flux of \Delta I_{0} = 2.0 \pm 1.0 mJy/beam and y = (2.0 \pm 1.0) x 10^{-4}. To be successful such measurements require large chop throws and non-standard data analysis techniques. In particular, the 450 micron data are used to remove atmospheric variations in the 850 micron data. An explicit annular model is fit to the SCUBA difference data in order to extract the radial profile, and separately fit to the model differences to minimize the effect of correlations induced by our scanning strategy. We have demonstrated that with sufficient care, SCUBA can be used to measure the SZ increment in massive, compact galaxy clusters.

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