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ALMA-SZ探测宇宙年龄一半时的星系团合并激波

ALMA-SZ Detection of a Galaxy Cluster Merger Shock at Half the Age of the Universe

Kaustuv Basu, Martin Sommer, Jens Erler, Dominique Eckert, Franco Vazza, Benjamin Magnelli, Frank Bertoldi, Paolo Tozzi

摘要:

我们目前的ALMA测量的合并冲击使用的热Sunyaev-Zel'dovich(SZ)效应信号,在一个无线电遗迹的位置在著名的El戈多星系团在$z \approx 0.9$。多波长分析结合档案钱德拉数据和高分辨率的无线电图像提供了一个一致的图片的热和非热信号的变化,整个冲击波阵面,并有助于把强大的约束冲击马赫数以及遗迹磁场。我们采用贝叶斯分析技术的SZ和X射线数据自洽建模,说明各自的参数退化。综合结果表明,激波马赫数为${\cal M} = 2.4^{+1.3}_{-0.6}$,这反过来又表明磁场的高值($4-10 ~μ$ G级),以解释在2 GHz时观察到的遗迹宽度。在大约宇宙当前年龄的一半时,这是迄今为止对星团激波的最高红移直接探测,也是ALMA-SZ观测星系团的第一个实例之一。它显示了未来ALMA-SZ观测的巨大潜力,以检测合并冲击和其他集群子结构的最高红移。

英文摘要:

We present ALMA measurements of a merger shock using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signal, at the location of a radio relic in the famous El Gordo galaxy cluster at $z \approx 0.9$. Multi-wavelength analysis in combination with the archival Chandra data and a high-resolution radio image provides a consistent picture of the thermal and non-thermal signal variation across the shock front and helps to put robust constraints on the shock Mach number as well as the relic magnetic field. We employ a Bayesian analysis technique for modeling the SZ and X-ray data self-consistently, illustrating respective parameter degeneracies. Combined results indicate a shock with Mach number ${\cal M} = 2.4^{+1.3}_{-0.6}$, which in turn suggests a high value of the magnetic field (of the order of $4-10 ~μ$G) to account for the observed relic width at 2 GHz. At roughly half the current age of the universe, this is the highest-redshift direct detection of a cluster shock to date, and one of the first instances of an ALMA-SZ observation in a galaxy cluster. It shows the tremendous potential for future ALMA-SZ observations to detect merger shocks and other cluster substructures out to the highest redshifts.

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