Temperature Bias in Measurements of The Hubble Constant Using The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

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2003-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303355v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Measurements of the Hubble constant to distant galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect are systematically low in comparison to values obtained by other means. These measurements usually assume a spherical isothermal $\beta$ model for the intracluster medium (ICM). We present the results of a statistical analysis of {\em temperature bias} in $H_0$ determinations in a sample of 27 numerically simulated X-ray clusters drawn from a $\Lambda$CDM model at z=0.5. We employ adaptive mesh refinement to provide high resolution (15.6 h$^{-1} kpc$) in cluster cores which dominate the X-ray and radio signals. Fitting synthetic X-ray and y-parameter maps to the standard isothermal beta model, we find a broad, skewed distribution in $f\equiv H_0(SZ)/H_0(actual)$ with a mean, median, and standard deviation of 0.89, 0.83 and 0.32 respectively, where $H_0(SZ)$ is the value of $H_0$ derived by using Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect method and $H_0(actual)$ is the value used in the cosmological simulation. We find that the clusters' declining temperature profiles systematically lower estimates of $H_0$ by 10% to 20%. The declining temperature profile of our adiabatic system is consistent with the result including radiative cooling and supernovae feedback (Loken et al. 2002). We thereby introduce a non-isothermal $\beta$ model as an improvement. Applying the non-isothermal $\beta$ model to the refined sample with well-fitted temperature profile, the value of f improves 9% relative to the actual value. The study of the morphology and the clumping effects conclude that these two factors combine to induce scatter in f of $\pm$ 30 %.

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