Joint X-ray/Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Analysis of the Intra-Cluster Medium

Abstract

We present results from a joint X-ray/Sunyaev-Zel'dovich modeling of the intra-cluster gas using XMM-Newton and APEX-SZ imaging data. The goal is to study the physical properties of the intra-cluster gas with a non-parametric de-projection method that is, aside from the assumption of spherical symmetry, free from modeling bias. We demonstrate a decrease of gas temperature in the cluster outskirts, and also measure the gas entropy profile, both of which are obtained for the first time independently of X-ray spectroscopy, using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and X-ray imaging data. The contribution of the APEX-SZ systematic uncertainties in measuring the gas temperature at large radii is shown to be small compared to the XMM-Newton and Chandra systematic spectroscopic errors.

4 pages, 6 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the 'X-ray Astronomy 2009' conference in Bologna (AIP conference series, Eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, L. Angelini)