CHEX-MATE: towards a consistent universal pressure profile and cluster mass reconstruction
Abstract
In a self-similar paradigm of structure formation, the thermal pressure of the hot intra-cluster gas follows a universal distribution once the profile of each cluster is normalised based on the proper mass and redshift dependencies. The reconstruction of such a universal pressure profile requires an individual estimate of the mass of each cluster. In this context, we present a method to jointly fit, for the first time, the universal pressure profile and individual cluster masses over a sample of galaxy clusters, properly accounting for correlations between the profile shape and amplitude, and masses scaling the individual profiles. We demonstrate the power of the method and show that a consistent exploitation of the universal pressure profile and cluster mass estimates when modelling the thermal pressure in clusters is necessary to avoid biases. In particular, the method, informed by a cluster mass scale, outputs individual cluster masses with same accuracy and better precision than input masses. Using data from the {\guillemotleft}Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton: Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of structure formation{\guillemotright}, we investigate a sample of galaxy clusters spanning mass and redshift ranges of and .
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@article{arxiv.2510.18578,
title = {CHEX-MATE: towards a consistent universal pressure profile and cluster mass reconstruction},
author = {M. Muñoz-Echeverría and E. Pointecouteau and G. W. Pratt and J. -F. Macías-Pérez and M. Douspis and L. Salvati and I. Bartalucci and H. Bourdin and N. Clerc and F. De Luca and M. De Petris and M. Donahue and S. Dupourqué and D. Eckert and S. Ettori and M. Gaspari and F. Gastaldello and M. Gitti and A. Gorce and S. Ilić and S. T. Kay and J. Kim and L. Lovisari and B. J. Maughan and P. Mazzotta and L. McBride and J. -B. Melin and F. Oppizzi and E. Rasia and M. Rossetti and H. Saxena and J. Sayers and M. Sereno and M. Tristram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18578},
year = {2026}
}
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Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics