Sunyaev-Zel'dovich detection of the galaxy cluster Cl J1449+0856 at z=1.99: The pressure profile in uv space

R. Gobat, Emanuele Daddi, R. T. Coogan, Matthieu Le Brun, F. Bournaud, J.-B Melin, D. Riechers, M. Sargent, Francesco Maria Valentino, Helena Hwang, Alexis Finoguenov, Veronica Strazzullo

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Abstract

We present Atacama Large Millimetre Array and Atacama Compact Array observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the z  =  2 galaxy cluster Cl J1449+0856, an X-ray-detected progenitor of typical massive clusters in the present day Universe. While in a cleaned but otherwise untouched 92 GHz map of this cluster little to no negative signal is visible, careful subtraction of known sub-millimetre emitters in the uv plane reveals a decrement at 5σ significance. The total signal is -190  ±  36 μJy, with a peak offset by 5″-9″ (∼50 kpc) from both the X-ray centroid and the still-forming brightest cluster galaxy. A comparison of the recovered uv-amplitude profile of the decrement with different pressure models allows us to derive total mass constraints consistent with the ∼6  ×  1013M⊙ estimated from X-ray data. Moreover, we find no strong evidence for a deviation of the pressure profile with respect to local galaxy clusters, although a slight tension at small-to-intermediate spatial scales suggests a flattened central profile, opposite to that seen in a cool core and possibly an AGN-related effect. This analysis of the lowest mass single SZ detection so far illustrates the importance of interferometers when observing the SZ effect in high-redshift clusters, the cores of which cannot be considered quiescent, such that careful subtraction of galaxy emission is necessary.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberA104
JournalAstronomy & Astrophysics
Volume629
Number of pages10
ISSN0004-6361
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2019

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