Wednesday, January 25, 2012

1101.5912 (Natasha Hurley-Walker et al.)

Bayesian analysis of weak gravitational lensing and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data for six galaxy clusters    [PDF]

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Sarah Bridle, Eduardo S. Cypriano, Matthew L. Davies, Thomas Erben, Farhan Feroz, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Keith Grainge, Michael P. Hobson, Anthony Lasenby, P. J. Marshall, Malak Olamaie, Guy Pooley, Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Richard D. E. Saunders, Anna M. M. Scaife, Michel P. Schammel, Paul F. Scott, Timothy Shimwell, David Titterington, Elizabeth Waldram, Jonathan T. L. Zwart
We present an analysis of observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of six galaxy clusters in a redshift range of 0.16--0.41. The cluster gas is modelled using the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) data provided by AMI, while the total mass is modelled using the lensing data from the CFHT. In this paper, we: i) find very good agreement between SZ measurements (assuming large-scale virialisation and a gas-fraction prior) and lensing measurements of the total cluster masses out to r_200; ii) perform the first multiple-component weak-lensing analysis of A115; iii) confirm the unusual separation between the gas and mass components in A1914; iv) jointly analyse the SZ and lensing data for the relaxed cluster A611, confirming our use of a simulation-derived mass-temperature relation for parameterizing measurements of the SZ effect.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5912

No comments:

Post a Comment