An X-ray Analysis Pipeline for the Joint Analysis of Cluster Observations

Combining multiwavelength data for a single relaxed cluster of galaxies can yield powerful constraints on its dark matter distribution and on the equation of state of the intracluster plasma. I describe an X-ray analysis pipeline for JACO, a codebase for simultaneous modeling of multi-mission X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich, and weak gravitational lensing data. JACO employs a forward convolution approach that assures the correct propagation of observational uncertainties into the final errors on the structural properties of the cluster dark matter distribution. JACO also features careful treatment of the Chandra and XMM-Newton point spread functions and of the various sources of the diffuse X-ray background.