A measurement of the kinetic sunyaev-zel'dovich signal toward MACS J0717.5+3745

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We report our analysis of MACS J0717.5+3745 using 140 and 268 GHz Bolocam data collected at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. We detect extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signal at high significance in both Bolocam bands, and we employ Herschel-SPIRE observations to subtract the signal from dusty background galaxies in the 268 GHz data. We constrain the two-band SZ surface brightness toward two of the sub-clusters of MACS J0717.5+3745: the main sub-cluster (named C), and a sub-cluster identified in spectroscopic optical data to have a line-of-sight velocity of +3200 km s-1 (named B). We determine the surface brightness in two separate ways: via fits of parametric models and via direct integration of the images. For both sub-clusters, we find consistent surface brightnesses from both analysis methods. We constrain spectral templates consisting of relativistically corrected thermal and kinetic SZ signals, using a jointly-derived electron temperature from Chandra and XMM-Newton under the assumption that each sub-cluster is isothermal. The data show no evidence for a kinetic SZ signal toward sub-cluster C, but they do indicate a significant kinetic SZ signal toward sub-cluster B. The model-derived surface brightnesses for sub-cluster B yield a best-fit, line-of-sight velocity of vz = +3450 ± 900 km s-1, with (1-Prob[v z ≥ 0]) = 1.3 × 10-5 (4.2σ away from 0 for a Gaussian distribution). The directly integrated sub-cluster B SZ surface brightnesses provide a best-fit vz = +2550 ± 1050 km s -1, with (1-Prob[vz ≥ 0]) = 2.2 × 10-3 (2.9σ). © 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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Sayers, J., Mroczkowski, T., Zemcov, M., Korngut, P. M., Bock, J., Bulbul, E., … Umetsu, K. (2013). A measurement of the kinetic sunyaev-zel’dovich signal toward MACS J0717.5+3745. Astrophysical Journal, 778(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/778/1/52

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