Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 423, Issue 3, Pages 2492-2497Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21059.x
Keywords
galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium; cosmic background radiation; cosmological parameters
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- ASI through ASI/INAF [I/072/09/0]
- STFC
- UKSA
- STFC [ST/J001538/1, ST/H004912/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J001538/1, ST/H00243X/1, ST/H004912/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- UK Space Agency [ST/H00002X/1, ST/K003674/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We develop a model for the power spectrum of unresolved clusters of galaxies arising from the thermal SunyaevZeldovich (tSZ) effect. The model is based on a universal gas pressure profile constrained by X-ray observations and includes a parameter to describe departures from self-similar evolution. The model is consistent with recent Planck observations of the tSZ effect for X-ray clusters with redshifts z? 1 and reproduces the low amplitude for the tSZ inferred from recent ground-based observations. By adjusting two free parameters, we are able to reproduce the tSZ power spectra from recent numerical simulations to an accuracy that is well within theoretical uncertainties. Our model provides a simple, empirically motivated tSZ template that may be useful for the analysis of new experiments such as Planck.
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