The Three Hundred-NIKA2 Sunyaev-Zeldovich Large Program twin samples: Synthetic clusters to support real observations
2021
Twin samples of synthetic clusters of galaxies with properties close to the targets of the NIKA2 camera Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) Large Program have been generated from THE THREE HUNDRED Project simulations database. This Large SZ Program is observing a selection of galaxy clusters at intermediate and high redshift $\left( 0.5 < z < 0.9 \right)$, covering one order of magnitude in mass. These are SZ-selected clusters from the Planck and Atacama Cosmology Telescope catalogs, where the selection is based on their integrated Compton parameter values, $Y_{500}$: the value of the parameter within the characteristics radius $R_{500}$.
THE THREE HUNDRED hydrodynamical simulations provide us with hundreds of clusters satisfying these redshift, mass, and $Y_{500}$ requirements. In addition to the standard post-processing analysis, mock observational maps are available mimicking X-ray, optical, gravitational lensing, radio, and SZ observations of galaxy clusters. The primary goal of employing the twin samples is to compare different cluster mass proxies from synthetic X-ray, SZ effect, and optical maps (via the velocity dispersion of member galaxies and lensing $\kappa$-maps) of the clusters. Eventually, scaling laws between different mass proxies and the cluster mass will be cross-correlated to reduce the scatter on the inferred mass and the mass bias will be related to various physical parameters.
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