Constraints on Non-Thermal Pressure at galaxy cluster outskirts from a Joint SPT and XMM-Newton Analysis

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Main Authors: Sarkar, Arnab, McDonald, Michael, Bleem, Lindsey, Bautz, Mark, Benson, Bradford A., Chakraborty, Priyanka, Grant, Catherine E., Jones, Christine, Kéruzoré, Florian, Miller, Eric D., Randall, Scott, Romero, Charles, Somboonpanyakul, Taweewat, Su, Yuanyuan
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author Sarkar, Arnab
McDonald, Michael
Bleem, Lindsey
Bautz, Mark
Benson, Bradford A.
Chakraborty, Priyanka
Grant, Catherine E.
Jones, Christine
Kéruzoré, Florian
Miller, Eric D.
Randall, Scott
Romero, Charles
Somboonpanyakul, Taweewat
Su, Yuanyuan
author_facet Sarkar, Arnab
McDonald, Michael
Bleem, Lindsey
Bautz, Mark
Benson, Bradford A.
Chakraborty, Priyanka
Grant, Catherine E.
Jones, Christine
Kéruzoré, Florian
Miller, Eric D.
Randall, Scott
Romero, Charles
Somboonpanyakul, Taweewat
Su, Yuanyuan
contents We present joint South Pole Telescope (SPT) and XMM-Newton observations of 8 massive galaxy clusters (0.8--1.7$\times$10$^{15}$ M$_{\odot}$) spanning a redshift range of 0.16 to 0.35. Employing a novel SZ+X-ray fitting technique, we effectively constrain the thermodynamic properties of these clusters out to the virial radius. The resulting best-fit electron density, deprojected temperature, and deprojected pressure profiles are in good agreement with previous observations of massive clusters. For the majority of the cluster sample (5 out of 8 clusters), the entropy profiles exhibit a self-similar behavior near the virial radius. We further derive hydrostatic mass, gas mass, and gas fraction profiles for all clusters up to the virial radius. Comparing the enclosed gas fraction profiles with the universal gas fraction profile, we obtain non-thermal pressure fraction profiles for our cluster sample at $>$$R_{500}$, demonstrating a steeper increase between $R_{500}$ and $R_{200}$ that is consistent with the hydrodynamical simulations. Our analysis yields non-thermal pressure fraction ranges of 8--28% (median: 15 $\pm$ 11%) at $R_{500}$ and 21--35% (median: 27 $\pm$ 12%) at $R_{200}$. Notably, weak-lensing mass measurements are available for only four clusters in our sample, and our recovered total cluster masses, after accounting for non-thermal pressure, are consistent with these measurements.
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spellingShingle Constraints on Non-Thermal Pressure at galaxy cluster outskirts from a Joint SPT and XMM-Newton Analysis
Sarkar, Arnab
McDonald, Michael
Bleem, Lindsey
Bautz, Mark
Benson, Bradford A.
Chakraborty, Priyanka
Grant, Catherine E.
Jones, Christine
Kéruzoré, Florian
Miller, Eric D.
Randall, Scott
Romero, Charles
Somboonpanyakul, Taweewat
Su, Yuanyuan
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We present joint South Pole Telescope (SPT) and XMM-Newton observations of 8 massive galaxy clusters (0.8--1.7$\times$10$^{15}$ M$_{\odot}$) spanning a redshift range of 0.16 to 0.35. Employing a novel SZ+X-ray fitting technique, we effectively constrain the thermodynamic properties of these clusters out to the virial radius. The resulting best-fit electron density, deprojected temperature, and deprojected pressure profiles are in good agreement with previous observations of massive clusters. For the majority of the cluster sample (5 out of 8 clusters), the entropy profiles exhibit a self-similar behavior near the virial radius. We further derive hydrostatic mass, gas mass, and gas fraction profiles for all clusters up to the virial radius. Comparing the enclosed gas fraction profiles with the universal gas fraction profile, we obtain non-thermal pressure fraction profiles for our cluster sample at $>$$R_{500}$, demonstrating a steeper increase between $R_{500}$ and $R_{200}$ that is consistent with the hydrodynamical simulations. Our analysis yields non-thermal pressure fraction ranges of 8--28% (median: 15 $\pm$ 11%) at $R_{500}$ and 21--35% (median: 27 $\pm$ 12%) at $R_{200}$. Notably, weak-lensing mass measurements are available for only four clusters in our sample, and our recovered total cluster masses, after accounting for non-thermal pressure, are consistent with these measurements.
title Constraints on Non-Thermal Pressure at galaxy cluster outskirts from a Joint SPT and XMM-Newton Analysis
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00113