Samuel J. LaRoque et al. 2006 ApJ 652 917 doi:10.1086/508139
Samuel J. LaRoque1, Massimiliano Bonamente2,3, John E. Carlstrom1,4, Marshall K. Joy3, Daisuke Nagai1,5, Erik D. Reese6 and Kyle S. Dawson7,8
Show affiliationsWe present gas mass fractions of 38 massive galaxy clusters at redshifts 0.14 ≤ z ≤ 0.89, derived from Chandra X-ray and OVRO/BIMA interferometric Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) measurements. We use three models for the gas distribution: (1) an isothermal β-model fit jointly to the X-ray data at radii beyond 100 kpc and to all of the SZE data, (2) a nonisothermal double β-model in hydrostatic equilibrium with a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) dark matter distribution, fit jointly to all of the X-ray and SZE data, and (3) an isothermal β-model fit only to the SZE spatial data. We show that the isothermal model well characterizes the intracluster medium outside the cluster core and provides good fits to clusters with a range of morphological properties. X-ray and SZE mean gas mass fractions for model 1 are fgas(X-ray) = 0.110 ± 0.003
and fgas(SZE) = 0.116 ± 0.005
assuming
=
; uncertainties are statistical followed by systematic at 68% confidence. For model 2, fgas(X-ray) = 0.119 ± 0.003
and fgas(SZE) = 0.121 ± 0.005
. For model 3, fgas(SZE) = 0.120 ± 0.009
. The agreement in the results shows that the core can be accounted for satisfactorily by either excluding it from fits to the X-ray data or modeling the intracluster gas with a nonisothermal double β-model. We find that the SZE is largely insensitive to core structure. Our results indicate that the ratio of gas mass fraction within r2500 to the cosmic baryon fraction, fgas/
, is 0.68
, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are included at 68% confidence. By assuming that cluster gas mass fractions are independent of redshift, we find that the results agree with standard ΛCDM cosmology and are inconsistent with a flat matter-dominated (ΩM = 1) universe.
cosmological parameters; cosmology: observations; X-rays: galaxies: clusters
Issue 2 (2006 December 1)
Received 2006 April 4, accepted for publication 2006 July 26
Samuel J. LaRoque et al. 2006 ApJ 652 917
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