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Abstract
We investigate the connection between a cluster's structural configuration and observable measures of its gas emission that can be obtained in X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) surveys. We present an analytic model for the intracluster gas density profile: parameterised by the dark matter halo's inner logarithmic density slope, the concentration, c, the gas profile's inner logarithmic density slope, the dilution, d, and the gas fraction, normalised to cosmological content. We predict four probes of the gas emission: the emission-weighted, and mean gas mass-weighted, temperatures, and the spherically, and cylindrically, integrated Compton parameters. Over a parameter space of clusters, we constrain the X-ray temperature scaling relations, and, within and, and and, within and, all respectively. When excising the cluster's core, the and relations are further constrained, to within and, respectively. Similarly, we constrain the SZ scaling relations, and, within and, and and, within and, all respectively. The temperature observable places the strongest constraint on the halo mass, whilst is more sensitive to the parameter space. The SZ constraints are sensitive to the gas fraction, whilst insensitive to the form of the gas profile itself. In all cases, the halo mass is recovered with an uncertainty that suggests the cluster's structural profiles only contribute a minor uncertainty in its scaling relations.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e022 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia |
Volume | 41 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 26 Mar 2024 |
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ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions
Kewley, L. (Investigator 01), Wyithe, S. (Investigator 02), Sadler, E. (Investigator 03), Staveley-Smith, L. (Investigator 04), Glazebrook, K. (Investigator 05), Jackson, C. (Investigator 06), Bland-Hawthorn, J. (Investigator 07), Asplund, M. (Investigator 08), Power, C. (Investigator 09) & Driver, S. (Investigator 10)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/17 → 31/12/24
Project: Research