CHEX-MATE: pressure profiles of 6 galaxy clusters as seen by SPT and Planck ...

• Main Authors: Oppizzi, Filippo, De Luca, Federico, Bourdin, Hervé, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Ettori, Stefano, Gastaldello, Fabio, Kay, Scott, Lovisari, Lorenzo, Maughan, Ben J., Pointecouteau, Etienne, Pratt, Gabriel W., Rossetti, Mariachiara, Sayers, Jack, Sereno, Mauro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2022
• Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; FOS Physical sciences; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.09601; https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09601

Pressure profiles are sensitive probes of the thermodynamic conditions and the internal structure of galaxy clusters. The intra-cluster gas resides in hydrostatic equilibrium within the Dark Matter gravitational potential. However, this equilibrium may be perturbed, e.g. as a consequence of thermal energy losses, feedback and non-thermal pressure supports. Accurate measures of the gas pressure over the cosmic times are crucial to constrain the cluster evolution as well as the contribution of astrophysical processes. In this work we presented a novel algorithm to derive the pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal measured on a combination of Planck and South Pole Telescope (SPT) observations. The synergy of the two instruments made it possible to track the profiles on a wide range of spatial scales. We exploited the sensitivity to the larger scales of the Planck High-Frequency Instrument to observe the faint peripheries, and the higher spatial resolution of SPT to solve the ... : 19 pages, 13 figures, submitted to A&A ...