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High angular resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of MACS J1423.8+2404 with NIKA: Multiwavelength analysis
The prototype of the NIKA2 camera, NIKA, is an instrument operating at the
IRAM 30-m telescope, which can observe simultaneously at 150 and 260GHz. One of
the main goals of NIKA2 is to measure the pressure distribution in galaxy
clusters at high resolution using the thermal SZ (tSZ) effect. Such
observations have already proved to be an excellent probe of cluster pressure
distributions even at high redshifts. However, an important fraction of
clusters host submm and/or radio point sources, which can significantly affect
the reconstructed signal. Here we report on <20" resolution observations at 150
and 260GHz of the cluster MACSJ1424, which hosts both radio and submm point
sources. We examine the morphology of the tSZ signal and compare it to other
datasets. The NIKA data are combined with Herschel satellite data to study the
SED of the submm point source contaminants. We then perform a joint
reconstruction of the intracluster medium (ICM) electronic pressure and density
by combining NIKA, Planck, XMM-Newton, and Chandra data, focusing on the impact
of the radio and submm sources on the reconstructed pressure profile. We find
that large-scale pressure distribution is unaffected by the point sources
because of the resolved nature of the NIKA observations. The reconstructed
pressure in the inner region is slightly higher when the contribution of point
sources are removed. We show that it is not possible to set strong constraints
on the central pressure distribution without accurately removing these
contaminants. The comparison with X-ray only data shows good agreement for the
pressure, temperature, and entropy profiles, which all indicate that MACSJ1424
is a dynamically relaxed cool core system. The present observations illustrate
the possibility of measuring these quantities with a relatively small
integration time, even at high redshift and without X-ray spectroscopy.Comment: 15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to A&
High-resolution tSZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with NIKA at the IRAM 30-m telescope
The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (tSZ) is a powerful probe to study
clusters of galaxies and is complementary with respect to X-ray, lensing or
optical observations. Previous arcmin resolution tSZ observations ({\it e.g.}
SPT, ACT and Planck) only enabled detailed studies of the intra-cluster medium
morphology for low redshift clusters (). Thus, the development of
precision cosmology with clusters requires high angular resolution observations
to extend the understanding of galaxy cluster towards high redshift. NIKA2 is a
wide-field (6.5 arcmin field of view) dual-band camera, operated at and containing KID (Kinetic Inductance Detectors), designed to
observe the millimeter sky at 150 and 260 GHz, with an angular resolution of 18
and 12 arcsec respectively. The NIKA2 camera has been installed on the IRAM
30-m telescope (Pico Veleta, Spain) in September 2015. The NIKA2 tSZ
observation program will allow us to observe a large sample of clusters (50) at
redshift ranging between 0.5 and 1. As a pathfinder for NIKA2, several clusters
of galaxies have been observed at the IRAM 30-m telescope with the NIKA
prototype to cover the various configurations and observation conditions
expected for NIKA2.Comment: Proceedings of the 28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics,
Geneva, Switzerland, December 13-18, 201