Signature of cool cores in SZ clusters: a multiwavelength approach

Details Signature of cool cores in SZ clusters: a multiwavelength approach Signature of cool cores in SZ clusters: a multiwavelength approach

2010-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/1001.4094v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

16 pages, 13 figures, MNRAS accepted

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We use the high quality pressure profiles of 239 galaxy clusters made available by the ACCEPT project (Cavagnolo et al. 2009) in order to derive the expected Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) signal in a variety of cases that hardly find a counterpart in the simulations. We made use of the Melin et al. (2006) cluster selection function for both the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck instruments. We infer a clear effect of the cool core (CC) on the central Compton parameter y_0. We find that the presence of CCs introduces a small bias in cluster detection, especially around the mass at which the performance of the survey begins to decrease. If the CC were removed, a lower overall fraction of detected clusters would be expected. In order to estimate the presence of such a bias by means of SZ only surveys, we show that the ratio between y_0 and y_int anti-correlates with the cluster central cooling time. If multi-band optical cluster surveys are either available for a cross-match or a follow-up is planned, we suggest that likely CC clusters are those with a Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) at least 0.3 magnitudes bluer than the average. A more robust estimate of the CC presence is given by UV-optical colours of the BCG, like the NUV-r, whose values can be 4 magnitudes off the NUV-r equivalent of the red sequence, in clusters with low excess entropy. We also find correlation of the y_0/y_int ratio with Halpha, IR and radio luminosities. We argue that the analysis of a combined SZ/optical/UV surveys can be also used to shed light on the suggested CC evolution with redshift. (abridged)

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