6 papers
Clusters Hiding Under Millimeter Sources (CHUMS) I: Extreme CHUMS
Harshda Saxena, Adam B. Mantz, Jack Sayers +2
Galaxy cluster abundance provides a powerful probe of the CDM model and enables precise constraints on cosmological parameters. Millimeter-wavelength surveys detect clusters th…
An Inverse-Compton-Boosted Cool Core Unifies Perseus's Radio and X-ray Halos
Philip F. Hopkins, Emily M. Silich, Jack Sayers +2
Perseus is the brightest X-ray strong cool-core (SCC) cluster, with a bright central radio and -ray source plus low-frequency radio mini and giant halos. It is the archetype of…
Measuring the Temperature of Extremely Hot Shock-Heated Gas in the Major Merger MACS J0717.5+3745 With Relativistic Corrections to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Benjamin J. Vaughan, Jack Sayers, Locke Spencer +11
The conversion of gravitational potential to kinetic energy results in an intracluster medium (ICM) gas with a characteristic temperature near 10 keV in the most massive galaxy clu…
Observational Implications of Cosmic Ray-Inverse Compton 'Boosted' Cool Cores in Clusters
Philip F. Hopkins, Emily Silich, Jack Sayers +2
X-ray luminous cool-core (CC) galaxy clusters contain powerful cosmic ray (CR) sources. High-energy CRs powering GHz synchrotron lose energy rapidly, but long-lived (~Gyr-old) popu…
Cosmic Rays Masquerading as Cool Cores: An Inverse-Compton Origin for Cool Core Cluster Emission
Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert, Emily M. Silich +3
X-ray bright cool-core (CC) clusters contain luminous radio sources accelerating cosmic ray (CR) leptons at prodigious rates. Near the acceleration region, high-energy leptons prod…
Exploring a cosmic ray inverse-Compton origin to the SZ-to-X-ray pressure deficit in the cool core cluster ZwCl 3146
Emily M. Silich, Jack Sayers, Philip F. Hopkins +4
We explore the possibility that inverse-Compton (IC) scattering of cosmic microwave background photons by GeV cosmic rays (CRs) injected by the central active galactic nucleu…