Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect in galaxy clusters cavities: thermal or non-thermal origin? [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01748


Several galaxy clusters host X-ray cavities, often filled with relativistic electrons emitting in the radio band. In the cluster MS 0735.6+7421 the cavities have been detected through the Sunyaev Zel’dovich (SZ) effect, but it has not been possible to determine if this effect is thermal (produced by a very high temperature gas filling the cavity) or non-thermal (produced by the relativistic electrons that produce the diffuse radio emission detected in the cavity). In this paper we discuss the role of the density of the high temperature gas inside the cavities in determining whether the dominant SZ effect is the thermal or the non-thermal one, and how it can be possible to distinguish between the two possibilities, discussing the role of observations at higher energy bands.

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P. Marchegiani
Wed, 3 Nov 21
78/106

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference entitled “mm Universe @ NIKA2”, Rome (Italy), June 2021, EPJ Web of conferences. This version includes the Acknowledgements section, which is not present in the published version of the Proceedings because of the limit of pages. This paper is largely based on the results published in MNRAS, 503, 4183 (2021) (arXiv:2103.05379)