An Unbiased Measurement of Ho through Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Nearby Galaxy Clusters

Details An Unbiased Measurement of Ho through Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Nearby Galaxy Clusters An Unbiased Measurement of Ho through Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Nearby Galaxy Clusters

2004-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408005v1

Astrophys.J. 615 (2004) 63-81

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

49 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/423946

We present Ho results from Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) in 7 galaxy clusters, A85, A399, A401, A478, A754, A1651, and A2597. These observations are part of a program to study a complete, volume-limited sample of low-redshift (z<0.1), X-ray selected clusters. Our focus on nearby objects allows us to study a well-defined, orientation unbiased sample, minimizing systematic errors due to cluster asphericity. We use density models derived from ROSAT imaging data and temperature measurements from ASCA and BeppoSAX spectral observations. We quantify in detail sources of error in our derivation of Ho, including calibration of the CBI data, density and temperature models from the X-ray data, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) primary anisotropy fluctuations, and residuals from radio point source subtraction. From these 7 clusters we obtain a result of Ho = 67^{+30}_{-18}, ^{+15}_{-6} km/s/Mpc for an unweighted sample average. The respective quoted errors are random and systematic uncertainties at 68% confidence. The dominant source of error is confusion from intrinsic anisotropy fluctuations.

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