Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-26
Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 56 (2004) 17-28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 8 figures; minor corrections, final version to appear in PASJ
Scientific paper
Foreseeing the era of high spatial resolution measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) in clusters of galaxies, we present a prototype analysis of this sort combined with Chandra X-ray data. It is applied specifically to RX J1347-1145 at z=0.451, the most X-ray-luminous galaxy cluster known, for which the highest resolution SZE and X-ray images are currently available. We demonstrate that the combined analysis yields a unique probe of complex structures in the intracluster medium, offering determinations of their temperature, density, and line-of-sight extent. For a subclump in RX J1347-1145, previously discovered in our SZE map, the temperature inferred after removing the foreground and background components is well in excess of 20 keV, indicating that the cluster has recently undergone a violent merger. Excluding the region around this subclump, the SZE signals in submillimeter to centimeter bands (350, 150, and 21 GHz) are all consistent with those expected from Chandra X-ray observations. We further present a temperature deprojection technique based on the SZE and X-ray images, without any knowledge of spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy. The methodology presented here will be applicable to a statistical sample of clusters available in the future SZE surveys.
Hattori Makoto
Kitayama Tetsu
Komatsu Eiichiro
Kuwabara Takao
Matsuo Hiroshi
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