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A search for X-ray emission towards the SZ cluster candidate in the
direction of the quasar pair PC1643+4631
R. Kneissl
Max-Planck-Institut für
Astrophysik,
Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1,
85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Abstract:
We report on a 16 ks X-ray observation with the ROSAT PSPC towards the
center of a CMB decrement detected by Jones et al. (1997) in the direction of the quasar
pair PC1643+4631 A & B. At the position of the decrement we find no evidence
for emission by hot gas which could give rise to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.
The lowest bolometric flux upper limit (99.7 % CL) from the observation is
derived in the
energy range 0.5--2.0 keV within a radius of . We investigate whether a
gas halo could be causing the decrement and find, with conservative assumptions
about the cosmology and gas parameters, a high redshift limit of (95
% CL), not far from the redshift of the quasar pair (). We conclude
that the CMB decrement is not a typical galaxy cluster. Since this decrement is
not the only one without clear indication for an associated galaxy cluster
(Richards et al. (1997)), we suggest to explore also other explanations for the CMB
decrement.
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