Effect of Internal Flows on Sunyaev-Zeldovich Measurements of Cluster Peculiar Velocities.pdfVIP

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 2 0 8 3 0 8 v 2 1 9 D e c 2 0 0 2 Draft version February 2, 2008 Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj v. 14/09/00 EFFECT OF INTERNAL FLOWS ON SUNYAEV-ZELDOVICH MEASUREMENTS OF CLUSTER PECULIAR VELOCITIES Daisuke Nagai1,2, Andrey V. Kravtsov1,2, Arthur Kosowsky1,3 Draft version February 2, 2008 ABSTRACT Galaxy clusters are potentially powerful probes of the large-scale velocity field in the Universe because their peculiar velocity can be estimated directly via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ). Using high-resolution cosmological simulatio