PreProFit -- Pressure Profile Fitter for galaxy clusters
Journal
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Abstract
Galaxy cluster analyses based on high-resolution observations of the
Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect have become common in the last decade. We present
PreProFit, the first publicly available code designed to fit the pressure
profile of galaxy clusters from SZ data. PreProFit is based on a Bayesian
forward-modelling approach, allows the analysis of data coming from different
sources, adopts a flexible parametrization for the pressure profile, and fits
the model to the data accounting for Abel integral, beam smearing, and transfer
function filtering. PreProFit is computationally efficient, is extensively
documented, has been released as an open source Python project, and was
developed to be part of a joint analysis of X-ray and SZ data on galaxy
clusters. PreProFit returns $\chi^2$, model parameters and uncertainties,
marginal and joint probability contours, diagnostic plots, and surface
brightness radial profiles. PreProFit also allows the use of analytic
approximations for the beam and transfer functions useful for feasibility
studies.
Volume
632
Start page
A22
Issn Identifier
0004-6361
Rights
open.access
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