Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-03-06
Astrophys.J. 539 (2000) 39
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Astrophysical Journal v.538, Aug 1, 2000
Scientific paper
10.1086/309190
We present interferometric measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect towards the galaxy cluster Abell 370. These measurements, which directly probe the pressure of the cluster's gas, show the gas distribution to be strongly aspherical, as do the x-ray and gravitational lensing observations. We calculate the cluster's gas mass fraction in two ways. We first compare the gas mass derived from the SZ measurements to the lensing-derived gravitational mass near the critical lensing radius. We also calculate the gas mass fraction from the SZ data by deprojecting the three-dimensional gas density distribution and deriving the total mass under the assumption that the gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium (HSE). We test the assumptions in the HSE method by comparing the total cluster mass implied by the two methods and find that they agree within the errors of the measurement. We discuss the possible systematic errors in the gas mass fraction measurement and the constraints it places on the matter density parameter, OmegaM.
Carlstrom John E.
Cooray Asantha R.
Grego Laura
Holder Gilbert P.
Holzapfel William L.
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