Kavli Affiliate: Sunil Golwala
| First 5 Authors: Emily M. Silich, Elena Bellomi, Jack Sayers, John ZuHone, Urmila Chadayammuri
| Summary:
Galaxy cluster mergers are representative of a wide range of physics, making
them an excellent probe of the properties of dark matter and the ionized plasma
of the intracluster medium. To date, most studies have focused on mergers
occurring in the plane of the sky, where morphological features can be readily
identified. To allow study of mergers with arbitrary orientation, we have
assembled multi-probe data for the eight-cluster ICM-SHOX sample sensitive to
both morphology and line of sight velocity. The first ICM-SHOX paper
(Silich+2023) provided an overview of our methodology applied to one member of
the sample, MACS J0018.5+1626, in order to constrain its merger geometry. That
work resulted in an exciting new discovery of a velocity space decoupling of
its gas and dark matter distributions. In this work, we describe the
availability and quality of multi-probe data for the full ICM-SHOX galaxy
cluster sample. These datasets will form the observational basis of an upcoming
full ICM-SHOX galaxy cluster sample analysis.
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