The XXL Survey. V. Detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect of the Redshift 1.9 Galaxy Cluster XLSSU J021744.1–034536 with CARMA

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Mantz, A. B., Abdulla, Z., Carlstrom, J. E., Greer, C. H., Leitch, E. M., Marrone, D. P., Muchovej, S., Adami, C., Birkinshaw, M., Bremer, M., Clerc, N., Giles, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2014
• Subjects: galaxies: clusters: individual (XLSSU J021744.1-034536); galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium; X-rays: galaxies: clusters; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/157

We report the detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of galaxy cluster XLSSU J021744.1–034536, using 30 GHz Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) data. This cluster was discovered via its extended X-ray emission in the XMM- Newton Large Scale Structure survey, the precursor to the XXL survey. It has a photometrically determined redshift z = 1.91^(+0.19)_(-0.21), making it among the most distant clusters known, and nominally the most distant for which the SZ effect has been measured. The spherically integrated Comptonization is Y _500 = (3.0 ± 0.4) × 10^(–12), a measurement that is relatively insensitive to assumptions regarding the size and redshift of the cluster, as well as the background cosmology. Using a variety of locally calibrated cluster scaling relations extrapolated to z ~ 2, we estimate a mass M _500 ~ (1-2) × 10^(14) M ☉ from the X-ray flux and SZ signal. The measured properties of this cluster are in good agreement with the extrapolation of an X-ray luminosity-SZ effect scaling relation calibrated from clusters discovered by the South Pole Telescope at higher masses and lower redshifts. The full XXL-CARMA sample will provide a more complete, multi-wavelength census of distant clusters in order to robustly extend the calibration of cluster scaling relations to these high redshifts. © 2014 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2014 January 9; Accepted 2014 August 25; Published 2014 October 7. Support for CARMA construction was derived from the states of California, Illinois, and Maryland, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the University of Chicago, the Associates of the California Institute of Technology, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ongoing CARMA development and operations are supported by the National Science Foundation under a cooperative agreement, and by the CARMA partner universities; the work at Chicago was supported by NSF grant ...