The galaxy cluster Ysz-Lx and Ysz-M relations from the WMAP 5-yr data

Details The galaxy cluster Ysz-Lx and Ysz-M relations from the WMAP 5-yr data The galaxy cluster Ysz-Lx and Ysz-M relations from the WMAP 5-yr data

2010-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1001.0871v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Version accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We use multifrequency matched filters to estimate, in the WMAP 5-year data, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) fluxes of 893 ROSAT NORAS/REFLEX clusters spanning the luminosity range Lx,[0.1-2.4]keV = 2 10^{41} - 3.5 10^{45} erg s^{-1}. The filters are spatially optimised by using the universal pressure profile recently obtained from combining XMM-Newton observations of the REXCESS sample and numerical simulations. Although the clusters are individually only marginally detected, we are able to firmly measure the SZ signal (>10 sigma) when averaging the data in luminosity/mass bins. The comparison between the bin-averaged SZ signal versus luminosity and X-ray model predictions shows excellent agreement, implying that there is no deficit in SZ signal strength relative to expectations from the X-ray properties of clusters. Using the individual cluster SZ flux measurements, we directly constrain the Y500-Lx and Y500-M500 relations, where Y500 is the Compton y-parameter integrated over a sphere of radius r500. The Y500-M500 relation, derived for the first time in such a wide mass range, has a normalisation Y*500=[1.60 pm 0.19] 10^{-3} arcmin^2 at M500=3 10^{14} h^{1} Msun, in excellent agreement with the X-ray prediction of 1.54 10^{-3} arcmin^2, and a mass exponent of alpha=1.79 pm 0.17, consistent with the self-similar expectation of 5/3. Constraints on the redshift exponent are weak due to the limited redshift range of the sample, although they are compatible with self-similar evolution.

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