Extraction of cluster parameters from Sunyaev - Zeldovich effect observations with simulated annealing optimization

Oct, 2003
8 pages
Published in:
  • New Astron. 9 (2004) 279-283
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a user-friendly tool for the analysis of data from Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect observations. The tool is based on the stochastic method of simulated annealing, and allows the extraction of the central values and error-bars of the 3 SZ parameters, Comptonization parameter, y, peculiar velocity, v_p, and electron temperature, T_e. The f77-code SASZ will allow any number of observing frequencies and spectral band shapes. As an example we consider the SZ parameters for the COMA cluster.
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