Measuring cluster gas mass fractions with X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, and weak lensing data

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We estimate the gas mass fractions for a sample of 39 high-z galaxy clusters using a combination of three different data sets: Chandra X-ray data, OVRO/BIMA centimeter-wave Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) data, and published weak gravitational lensing data. The gas mass fraction fg is calculated in three different ways. The X-ray surface brightness and SZE decrement are used independently to determine the number of baryons in the intracluster gas and subsequently the gas mass; the total mass follows assuming spherical symmetry and hydrostatic equilibrium (HSE). The third, less model-dependent approach is to calculate the projected SZE gas mass along a cylinder and divide by the total mass derived from the lensing data. The goal of this study is to compare the fg results from the three different methods to investigate systematic uncertainties associated with clumping of the intracluster medium, cluster elongation, and the HSE assumption.

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