Resolving the Merging Planck Cluster PLCK G147.3-16.6 with GISMO
Abstract
The Planck satellite has recently completed an all-sky galaxy cluster survey exploiting the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect to locate some of the most massive systems observable. With a median redshift of < z> =0.22, the clusters found by Planck at z\gt 0.3 are proving to be exceptionally massive and/or disturbed systems. One notable Planck discovery at z = 0.645, PLCK G147.3-16.6, has an elongated core and hosts a radio halo, indicating it is likely in the process of merging. We present a 16.″5 resolution SZ observation of this high-z merger using the Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2-Millimeter Observer, and compare it to X-ray follow-up observations with XMM-Newton. We find the SZ pressure substructure is offset from the core components seen in X-ray. We interpret this as possible line of sight temperature or density substructure due to the on-going merger.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1088/2041-8205/808/1/L6
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1501.05051
- Bibcode:
- 2015ApJ...808L...6M
- Keywords:
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- cosmology: observations;
- galaxies: clusters: general;
- galaxies: clusters: individual: PLCK G147.3-16.6;
- galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium;
- X-rays: galaxies: clusters;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accept for publication in ApJ Letters (9 June 2015)