A Determination of the Hubble Constant Using Measurements of X-Ray Emission and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect at Millimeter Wavelengths in the Cluster Abell 1835

Mauskopf, P.D.; Ade, P.A.R.; Allen, S.W.; Church, S.E.; Edge, A.C.; Ganga, K.M.; Holzapfel, W.L.; Lange, A.E.; Rownd, B.K.; Philhour, B.J.; Runyan, M.C.

doi:10.1086/309137

A Determination of the Hubble Constant Using Measurements of X-Ray Emission and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect at Millimeter Wavelengths in the Cluster Abell 1835

Mauskopf, P.D.; Ade, P.A.R.; Allen, S.W.; Church, S.E.; Edge, A.C.; Ganga, K.M.; Holzapfel, W.L.; Lange, A.E.; Rownd, B.K.; Philhour, B.J.; Runyan, M.C.

Authors

P.D. Mauskopf

P.A.R. Ade

S.W. Allen

S.E. Church

Professor Alastair Edge alastair.edge@durham.ac.uk
Professor

K.M. Ganga

W.L. Holzapfel

A.E. Lange

B.K. Rownd

B.J. Philhour

M.C. Runyan

Abstract

We present a determination of the Hubble constant and central electron density in the cluster Abell 1835 (z = 0.2523) from measurements of X-ray emission and millimeter-wave observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (S-Z) effect with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Infrared Experiment (SuZIE) multifrequency array receiver. Abell 1835 is a well studied cluster in the X-ray with a large central cooling flow. Using a combination of data from ROSAT PSPC and HRI images and millimeter wave measurements we fit a King model to the emission from the ionized gas around Abell 1835 with θ0 = 022 ± 002 and β = 0.58 ± 0.02. Assuming the cluster gas to be isothermal with a temperature of 9.8 keV, we find a y-parameter of 4.9 ± 0.6 × 10-4 and a peculiar velocity of 500 ± 1000 km s-1 from measurements at three frequencies, 145, 221, and 279 GHz. Combining the S-Z measurements with X-ray data, we determine a value for the Hubble constant of H0 = 59 km s-1 Mpc-1 and a central electron density for Abell 1835 of ne0 = 5.64 × 10-2 cm-3 assuming a standard cosmology with Ωm = 1 and ΩΛ = 0. The error in the determination of the Hubble constant is dominated by the uncertainty in the temperature of the X-ray emitting cluster gas.

Citation

Mauskopf, P., Ade, P., Allen, S., Church, S., Edge, A., Ganga, K., …Runyan, M. (2000). A Determination of the Hubble Constant Using Measurements of X-Ray Emission and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect at Millimeter Wavelengths in the Cluster Abell 1835. Astrophysical Journal, 538(2), 505-516. https://doi.org/10.1086/309137

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Aug 1, 2000
Deposit Date	Sep 12, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Jan 3, 2014
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Print ISSN	0004-637X
Electronic ISSN	1538-4357
Publisher	American Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	538
Issue	2
Pages	505-516
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1086/309137
Keywords	Cosmology, Observations, Distance scale, Galaxies, Clusters, Individual (A1835), Radio continum, X-rays.