HIGH-REDSHIFT COOL-CORE GALAXY CLUSTERS DETECTED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY

We report the first investigation of cool-core properties of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We use 13 galaxy clusters uniformly selected from 178 deg[superscript 2] observed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and followed up by the Chandra X-ray Observatory....

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bautz, Marshall W. (Contributor), McDonald, Michael A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-02-26T17:00:49Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext
LEADER 03625 am a22003733u 4500
001 95662
042 |a dc 
100 1 0 |a Bautz, Marshall W.  |e author 
100 1 0 |a MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Bautz, Marshall W.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a McDonald, Michael A.  |e contributor 
700 1 0 |a McDonald, Michael A.  |e author 
245 0 0 |a HIGH-REDSHIFT COOL-CORE GALAXY CLUSTERS DETECTED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY 
260 |b Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society,   |c 2015-02-26T17:00:49Z. 
856 |z Get fulltext  |u http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95662 
520 |a We report the first investigation of cool-core properties of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We use 13 galaxy clusters uniformly selected from 178 deg[superscript 2] observed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and followed up by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. They form an approximately mass-limited sample (>3 × 10[superscript 14] M ☉ h[superscript -1][subscript 70]) spanning redshifts 0.3 < z < 1.1. Using previously published X-ray-selected cluster samples, we compare two proxies of cool-core strength: surface brightness concentration (c[subscript SB]) and cuspiness (α). We find that c[subscript SB] is better constrained. We measure c[subscript SB] for the SPT sample and find several new z > 0.5 cool-core clusters, including two strong cool cores. This rules out the hypothesis that there are no z > 0.5 clusters that qualify as strong cool cores at the 5.4σ level. The fraction of strong cool-core clusters in the SPT sample in this redshift regime is between 7% and 56% (95% confidence). Although the SPT selection function is significantly different from the X-ray samples, the high-z c [subscript SB] distribution for the SPT sample is statistically consistent with that of X-ray-selected samples at both low and high redshifts. The cool-core strength is inversely correlated with the offset between the brightest cluster galaxy and the X-ray centroid, providing evidence that the dynamical state affects the cool-core strength of the cluster. Larger SZ-selected samples will be crucial in understanding the evolution of cluster cool cores over cosmic time. 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (South Pole Telescope Program, grant ANT-0638937) 
520 |a Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Excellence Initiative, EXC project No. 153) 
520 |a Chandra X-ray Center (U.S.) (Chandra award No. GO2-13006A) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-0114422) 
520 |a Kavli Foundation 
520 |a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF grant AST-1009012) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (SAO support, grant MRI-0723073) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (SAO support, grant AST-1009649) 
520 |a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 
520 |a Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Clay Fellowship) 
520 |a Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago (KICP Fellowship) 
520 |a Pennsylvania State University (contract 2834-MIT-SAO-4018 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) In 
520 |a United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF-51308.01) 
520 |a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Research Fellowship) 
546 |a en_US 
655 7 |a Article 
773 |t Astrophysical Journal