Are Clusters Standard Candles? Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations With the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Details Are Clusters Standard Candles? Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations With the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Are Clusters Standard Candles? Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations With the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

2001-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106315v1

Astrophys.J. 581 (2002) 5-19

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/344134

An extensive sample of galaxy clusters will be available in the coming years, detected through their Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE). We use a semi-analytic model to study the scientific yield of combining SZE data with X-ray and optical follow-up observations. If clusters at a given redshift z_o can be identified with virialized, spherical halos, they populate a well-defined "fundamental plane" (FP) in the parameter space of the three observables: virial temperature (T), total Sunyaev-Zeldovich flux decrement (DS), and angular size (theta). The location and orientation of the FP, as well as its redshift-evolution, are sensitive to both the internal evolution of clusters, and to the underlying cosmological parameters. We show that if clusters are not standard candles (e.g. due to feedback, or energy injection), then this can be inferred from the FP. Likewise, we study the dependence of the FP on the cosmological parameters h, sigma_8, and Omega_0, and quantify constraints on these parameters. We also show that in the absence of any non-gravitational effects, the scatter in the the (DS-T) plane is significantly smaller than in either the (theta-T) or the (theta-DS) planes. As a result, the (DS-T) relation can be an exceptionally sensitive probe of both cluster physics and cosmological parameters, and a comparison of the amount of scatter in these three scaling relations will serve as a test of the origin (cosmological vs. stochastic) of the scatter.

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