2011/01/28 by The AMI Consortium, Consortium, The AMI, Timothy W. Shimwell +43
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1101.5590
17 pages, 4 tables, 14 figures
arxiv created 2011/01/28 · openalex publication_date 2011/01/28 · arxiv updated 2015/03/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present observations from the Small Array of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) of eight high X-ray luminosity galaxy cluster systems selected from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS) sample.We detect the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in seven of these clusters. With the assumptions that galaxy clusters are isothermal, have a density profile described by a spherical b -model and obey the theoretical M-T relation, we are able to derive cluster parameters at r200 from our SZ data. With the additional assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium we are able to derive parameters at r500. We present posterior probability distributions for cluster parameters such as mass, radius and temperature (TSZ, MT). Combining our sample with that of AMI Consortium: Rodr'\iguez-Gonzálvez et al. (2011) and using large-radius X-ray temperature estimates (TX) from Chandra and Suzaku observations, we find that there is reasonable correspondence between TX and TSZ,MT values at low TX, but that for clusters with TX above around 6keV the correspondence breaks down with TX exceeding TSZ, MT; we stress that this finding is based on just ten clusters.