A high-resolution view of the filament of gas between Abell 399 and Abell 401 from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and MUSTANG-2
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Adam D. Hincks
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Federico Radiconi
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Charles Romero
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Mathew S. Madhavacheril
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Tony Mroczkowski
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Jason E. Austermann
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Eleonora Barbavara
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Nicholas Battaglia
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Elia Battistelli
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J. Richard Bond
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Erminia Calabrese
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Paolo de Bernardis
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Mark J. Devlin
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Simon R. Dicker
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Shannon M. Duff
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Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden
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Jo Dunkley
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Rolando Dünner
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Patricio A. Gallardo
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J. Colin Hill
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Matt Hilton
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Johannes Hubmayr
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John P. Hughes
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Luca Lamagna
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Martine Lokken
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Silvia Masi
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Brian S. Mason
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Jeff McMahon
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Kavilan Moodley
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Sigurd Naess
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Lyman Page
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Francesco Piacentini
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Maria Salatino
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Craig L. Sarazin
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Alessandro Schillaci
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Jonathan L. Sievers
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Cristóbal Sifón
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Suzanne Staggs
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Joel N. Ullom
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Alexander Van Engelen
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Michael R. Vissers
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Edward J. Wollack
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Zhilei Xu
Abstract
We report a significant detection of the hot intergalactic medium in the
filamentary bridge connecting the galaxy clusters Abell 399 and Abell 401. This
result is enabled by a low-noise, high-resolution map of the thermal
Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and Planck
satellite. The ACT data provide the $1.65'$ resolution that allows us to
clearly separate the profiles of the clusters, whose centres are separated by
$37'$, from the gas associated with the filament. A model that fits for only
the two clusters is ruled out compared to one that includes a bridge component
at $>5\sigma$. Using a gas temperature determined from Suzaku X-ray data, we
infer a total mass of $(3.3\pm0.7)\times10^{14}\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ associated
with the filament, comprising about $8\%$ of the entire Abell 399-Abell 401
system. We fit two phenomenological models to the filamentary structure; the
favoured model has a width transverse to the axis joining the clusters of
${\sim}1.9\,\mathrm{Mpc}$. When combined with the Suzaku data, we find a gas
density of $(0.88\pm0.24)\times10^{-4}\,\mathrm{cm}^{-3}$, considerably lower
than previously reported. We show that this can be fully explained by a
geometry in which the axis joining Abell 399 and Abell 401 has a large
component along the line of sight, such that the distance between the clusters
is significantly greater than the $3.2\,\mathrm{Mpc}$ projected separation on
the plane of the sky. Finally, we present initial results from higher
resolution ($12.7"$ effective) imaging of the bridge with the MUSTANG-2
receiver on the Green Bank Telescope.
Volume
510
Issue
3
Start page
3335
Issn Identifier
0035-8711
Rights
open.access
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