期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 725, 期 2, 页码 1452-1465出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/725/2/1452
关键词
cosmic background radiation; galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium; large-scale structure of universe
资金
- Yale University
- NSF [AST-1009811]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LDRD
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009811] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We use an analytic model to investigate the theoretical uncertainty on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) power spectrum due to astrophysical uncertainties in the thermal structure of the intracluster medium. Our model accounts for star formation and energy feedback (from supernovae and active galactic nuclei) as well as radially dependent non-thermal pressure support due to random gas motions, the latter calibrated by recent hydrodynamical simulations. We compare the model against X-ray observations of low-redshift clusters, finding excellent agreement with observed pressure profiles. Varying the levels of feedback and non-thermal pressure support can significantly change both the amplitude and shape of the thermal SZ power spectrum. Increasing the feedback suppresses power at small angular scales, shifting the peak of the power spectrum to lower l. On the other hand, increasing the non-thermal pressure support has the opposite effect, significantly reducing power at large angular scales. In general, including non-thermal pressure at the level measured in simulations has a large effect on the power spectrum, reducing the amplitude by 50% at angular scales of a few arcminutes compared to a model without a non-thermal component. Our results demonstrate that measurements of the shape of the power spectrum can reveal useful information on important physical processes in groups and clusters, especially at high redshift where there exists little observational data. Comparing with the recent South Pole Telescope measurements of the small-scale cosmic microwave background power spectrum, we find our model reduces the tension between the values of sigma(8) measured from the SZ power spectrum and from cluster abundances.
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