A measurement of H_0 from Ryle Telescope, ASCA and ROSAT observations of Abell 773

We present new Ryle Telescope (RT) observations of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement from the cluster Abell 773. The field contains a number of faint radio sources that required careful subtraction. We use ASCA observations to measure the gas temperature and a ROSAT HRI image to model the g...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2003-03
Main Authors: Saunders, Richard, Kneissl, Ruediger, Grainge, Keith, Grainger, William F, Jones, Michael E, Maggi, Alessia, Das, Rhiju, Edge, Alastair, Lasenby, A N, Pooley, G G, Miyoshi, Shigeru J, Tsuruta, Taisuke, Yamashita, Koujun, Tawara, Yuzuru, Furuzawa, Akihiro, Harada, Akihiro, Hatsukade, Izamu
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Language:English
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Gas temperature
Noise measurement
Subtraction
Uncertainty
Universe
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Summary:We present new Ryle Telescope (RT) observations of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement from the cluster Abell 773. The field contains a number of faint radio sources that required careful subtraction. We use ASCA observations to measure the gas temperature and a ROSAT HRI image to model the gas distribution. Normalising the gas distribution to fit the RT visibilities returns a value of H_0 of 77 (+19,-15) km/s/Mpc (1-sigma errors) for an Einstein-de-Sitter universe, or 85 (+20,-17) km/s/Mpc for a flat model with Omega_Lambda = 0.7. The errors quoted include estimates of the effects of the principal errors: noise in the SZ measurement, gas temperature uncertainty, and line-of sight depth uncertainty.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.9904168