Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-09-18
New Astron. 8 (2002) 1-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(02)00194-X
We study the influence of intracluster large scale magnetic fields on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. In a macroscopic approach we complete the hydrostatic equilibrium equation with the magnetic field pressure component. Comparing the resulting mass distribution with a standard one, we derive a new electron density profile. For a spherically symmetric cluster model, this new profile can be written as the product of a standard ($\beta$-) profile and a radius dependent function, close to unity, which takes into account the magnetic field strength. For non-cooling flow clusters we find that the observed magnetic field values can reduce the SZ signal by $\sim 10%$ with respect to the value estimated from X-ray observations and the $\beta$-model. If a cluster harbours a cooling flow, magnetic fields tend to weaken the cooling flow influence on the SZ-effect.
Jetzer Ph
Koch Peter M.
Puy Denis
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