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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 518, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014685
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cosmic background radiation; galaxies: clusters: individual: 1E0657-56
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- NASA
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E001181/1, PP/E001203/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [909159] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [PP/E001203/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background as observed through the hot plasma in galaxy clusters. This distortion is a decrement in the CMB intensity for lambda > 1.3 mm, an increment at shorter wavelengths, and small again by lambda similar to 250 mu m. As part of the Herschel Lensing Survey (HLS) we have mapped 1E0657-56 (the Bullet cluster) with SPIRE with bands centered at 250, 350 and 500 mu m and have detected the SZ effect at the two longest wavelengths. The measured SZ effect increment central intensities are Delta I-0 = 0.097 +/- 0.019 MJy sr(-1) at 350 mu m and Delta I-0 = 0.268 +/- 0.031 MJy sr(-1) at 500 mu m, consistent with the SZ effect spectrum derived from previous measurements at 2 mm. No other diffuse emission is detected. The presence of the finite temperature SZ effect correction is preferred by the SPIRE data at a significance of 2.1 sigma, opening the possibility that the relativistic SZ effect correction can be constrained by SPIRE in a sample of clusters. The results presented here have important ramifications for both sub-mm measurements of galaxy clusters and blank field surveys with SPIRE.
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