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X射线发光星系团体流的新测量

A new measurement of the bulk flow of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies

A. Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling, A. Edge, D. Kocevski

摘要:

我们提出了新的测量的大规模批量流量的星系团的基础上5年的WMAP数据和显着扩大的X射线集群目录。我们的方法通过测量运动学Sunyaev-Zeldovich(SZ)效应来探测移动团簇中热气体的流动。它计算偶极子的宇宙微波背景(CMB)数据在集群像素,它保留了SZ组件,同时整合下来的其他贡献。我们改进了超过1,000个星系团的目录,使我们能够进一步研究可能的系统效应,并且由于更高的星系团红移中值,使我们能够测量更大尺度的整体流量。我们提出了一个校正的错误处理,并证明了更多的X射线发光的集群,而数量较少,有更大的光学深度,从而导致更高的偶极子,从而更准确的流量测量。这导致在观测到的相关性的偶极子在孔径为零的射电望远镜与测量的射电望远镜在集群的中心区域。如果偶极子是由SZ效应产生的,并且不能由未识别的系统(或初级宇宙微波背景各向异性)引起,则这种相关性是预期的。我们测量的流量是一致的,近似恒定的速度至少800 Mpc。测量到的信号峰值在500 Mpc左右,很可能是因为来自更远的星团的贡献被WMAP光束逐渐稀释。然而,我们目前不能排除这些较远的星团对整体运动的贡献较小。

英文摘要:

We present new measurements of the large-scale bulk flows of galaxy clusters based on 5-year WMAP data and a significantly expanded X-ray cluster catalogue. Our method probes the flow via measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect produced by the hot gas in moving clusters. It computes the dipole in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data at cluster pixels, which preserves the SZ component while integrating down other contributions. Our improved catalog of over 1,000 clusters enables us to further investigate possible systematic effects and, thanks to a higher median cluster redshift, allows us to measure the bulk flow to larger scales. We present a corrected error treatment and demonstrate that the more X-ray luminous clusters, while fewer in number, have much larger optical depth, resulting in a higher dipole and thus a more accurate flow measurement. This results in the observed correlation of the dipole derived at the aperture of zero monopole with the monopole measured over the cluster central regions. This correlation is expected if the dipole is produced by the SZ effect and cannot be caused by unidentified systematics (or primary cosmic microwave background anisotropies). We measure that the flow is consistent with approximately constant velocity out to at least 800 Mpc. The significance of the measured signal peaks around 500 Mpc, most likely because the contribution from more distant clusters becomes progressively more diluted by the WMAP beam. We can, however, at present not rule out that these more distant clusters simply contribute less to the overall motion.

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