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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 527, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016037
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cosmology: theory; galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: clusters: individual: Bullet cluster; galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium
Aims. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) observation of galaxy clusters at high frequency are able to set relevant constraints on intracluster plasma physics because of the strong dependence from the electron distribution function. Methods. We used the multifrequency SZE observation that are available for the first time up to very high frequencies of similar to 850 GHz to set contraints on the structure of the Bullet cluster atmosphere. In this context we explore the predictions of five different plasma models with single or multiple temperatures, as well as a model with the coexistence of a thermal background plasma and an additional nonthermal one. Results. The statistical analysis of the SZE spectrum for the Bullet cluster excludes single temperature models and instead favors a more complex structure of the cluster atmosphere consisting of either two temperature plasma or - more preferably - a thermal plasma at a temperature of similar to 13.9 keV coexisting with a second plasma component, either at higher temperature or, more preferably, of nonthermal origin, confirming the preliminary, but not conclusive, indications of the hard X-ray observations of the Bullet cluster. Conclusions. The multifrequency study of the SZE signal in the range similar to 150-850 GHz observed in the Bullet cluster indicates that there is a complex plasma distribution with a combination of a thermal plus a nonthermal electron distribution consistently with the theoretical expectation for a powerful merging in the Bullet cluster.
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