https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225700008
Morphological analysis of SZ and X-ray maps of galaxy clusters with Zernike polynomials
1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ’Tor Vergata’, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy
3 Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
4 Departamento de Física Teórica, Módulo 8, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
5 Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Física Fundamental (CIAFF), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
6 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
7 National Institute for Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (INAF-OATs), Via Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy
8 Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU), Via Beirut 2, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
9 Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
* e-mail: valentina.capalbo@uniroma1.it
Published online: 17 January 2022
Several methods are used to evaluate, from observational data, the dynamical state of galaxy clusters. Among them, the morphological analysis of cluster images is well suited for this purpose. We report a new approach to the morphology, which consists in analytically modelling the images with a set of orthogonal functions, the Zernike polynomials (ZPs). We validated the method on mock high-resolution Compton parameter maps of synthetic galaxy clusters from The Three Hundred project. To classify the maps for their morphology we defined a single parameter, C, by combining the contribution of some ZPs in the modelling. We verify that C is linearly correlated with a combination of common morphological parameters and also with a proper 3D dynamicalstate indicator available for the synthetic clusters we used. We also show the early results of the Zernike modelling applied on Compton parameter maps of local clusters (z < 0:1) observed by the Planck satellite. At last, we report the preliminary results of this kind of morphological analysis on mock X-ray maps of The Three Hundred clusters.
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