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Galaxy clusters, the most massive, dark-matter-dominated, and most recently assembled structures in the Universe, are key tools for probing cosmology. However, uncertainties in scaling relations that connect cluster mass to observables like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Giulia Cerini , Elena Bellomi , Nico Cappelluti , Sabina Khizroev , Erwin T. Lau , Priyamvada Natarajan , John ZuHone

The dynamics of the intra-cluster medium (ICM), the hot plasma that fills galaxy clusters, are shaped by gravity-driven cluster mergers and feedback from supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the cluster cores. XRISM measurements of ICM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 XRISM Collaboration , Marc Audard , Hisamitsu Awaki , Ralf Ballhausen , Aya Bamba , Ehud Behar , Rozenn Boissay-Malaquin , Laura Brenneman , Gregory V. Brown , Lia Corrales , Elisa Costantini , Renata Cumbee , Maria Diaz Trigo , Chris Done , Tadayasu Dotani , Ken Ebisawa , Megan E. Eckart , Dominique Eckert , Satoshi Eguchi , Teruaki Enoto , Yuichiro Ezoe , Adam Foster , Ryuichi Fujimoto , Yutaka Fujita , Yasushi Fukazawa , Kotaro Fukushima , Akihiro Furuzawa , Luigi Gallo , Javier A. García , Liyi Gu , Matteo Guainazzi , Kouichi Hagino , Kenji Hamaguchi , Isamu Hatsukade , Katsuhiro Hayashi , Takayuki Hayashi , Natalie Hell , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Ann Hornschemeier , Yuto Ichinohe , Daiki Ishi , Manabu Ishida , Kumi Ishikawa , Yoshitaka Ishisaki , Jelle Kaastra , Timothy Kallman , Erin Kara , Satoru Katsuda , Yoshiaki Kanemaru , Richard Kelley , Caroline Kilbourne , Shunji Kitamoto , Shogo Kobayashi , Takayoshi Kohmura , Aya Kubota , Maurice Leutenegger , Michael Loewenstein , Yoshitomo Maeda , Maxim Markevitch , Hironori Matsumoto , Kyoko Matsushita , Dan McCammon , Brian McNamara , François Mernier , Eric D. Miller , Jon M. Miller , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Misaki Mizumoto , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Koji Mori , Koji Mukai , Hiroshi Murakami , Richard Mushotzky , Hiroshi Nakajima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Jan-Uwe Ness , Kumiko Nobukawa , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Hirofumi Noda , Hirokazu Odaka , Shoji Ogawa , Anna Ogorzałek , Takashi Okajima , Naomi Ota , Stephane Paltani , Robert Petre , Paul Plucinsky , Frederick S. Porter , Katja Pottschmidt , Kosuke Sato , Toshiki Sato , Makoto Sawada , Hiromi Seta , Megumi Shidatsu , Aurora Simionescu , Randall Smith , Hiromasa Suzuki , Andrew Szymkowiak , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Mai Takeo , Toru Tamagawa , Keisuke Tamura , Takaaki Tanaka , Atsushi Tanimoto , Makoto Tashiro , Yukikatsu Terada , Yuichi Terashima , Yohko Tsuboi , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Takeshi Tsuru , Aysegül Tümer , Hiroyuki Uchida , Nagomi Uchida , Yuusuke Uchida , Hideki Uchiyama , Shutaro Ueda , Yoshihiro Ueda , Shinichiro Uno , Jacco Vink , Shin Watanabe , Brian J. Williams , Satoshi Yamada , Shinya Yamada , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Noriko Yamasaki , Makoto Yamauchi , Shigeo Yamauchi , Tahir Yaqoob , Tomokage Yoneyama , Tessei Yoshida , Mihoko Yukita , Irina Zhuravleva , Weiguang Cui , Stefano Ettori , Skylar Grayson , Annie Heinrich , Hannah McCall , Dylan Nelson , Nobuhiro Okabe , Yuki Omiya , Arnab Sarkar , Evan Scannapieco , Ming Sun , Keita Tanaka , Nhut Truong , Daniel R. Wik , Congyao Zhang , John ZuHone

In Paper-I we presented a methodology to recover the spatial variations of properties of the intracluster gas from ASCA X-ray satellite observations of galaxy clusters. We verified the correctness of this procedure by applying it to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. White

Simulations of galaxy clusters have a difficult time reproducing the radial gas-property gradients and red central galaxies observed to exist in the cores of galaxy clusters. Thermal conduction has been suggested as a mechanism that can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Britton D. Smith , Brian W. O'Shea , G. Mark Voit , David Ventimiglia , Samuel W. Skillman

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a powerful tool in modern cosmology. With future observations promising ever improving SZ measurements, the relativistic corrections to the SZ signals from galaxy groups and clusters are increasingly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Elizabeth Lee , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Priyanka Singh , Jens Chluba , Daisuke Nagai , Scott T. Kay , Weiguang Cui , Klaus Dolag , Gustavo Yepes

X-ray observations of galaxy groups and clusters are inconsistent with the predictions of the simplest hierarchical clustering models, wherein non-baryonic and baryonic components are assembled together under the sole influence of gravity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Loewenstein

We present a morphological study of 35 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at 0.15<z<0.3, selected in a similar manner to the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS), for which deep XMM-Newton observations are available. We characterise the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gayoung Chon , Hans Boehringer , Graham P. Smith

Based on the two-parameter family nature of X-ray clusters of galaxies obtained in a separate paper, we discuss the formation history of clusters and cosmological parameters of the universe. Utilizing the spherical collapse model of cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yutaka Fujita , Fumio Takahara

The impact of viscosity in the Intracluster Medium (ICM) is still an open question in astrophysics. To address this problem, we have run a set of cosmological simulations of three galaxy clusters with a mass larger than $M_{\mathrm{Vir}} >…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

Large-scale diffuse radio emission is observed in some clusters of galaxies. There is ample of evidence that the emission has its origin in synchrotron losses of relativistic electrons, accelerated in the course of clusters mergers. In a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Hoeft , M. Brueggen , G. Yepes , S. Gottloeber , A. Schwope

We use a set of 45 simulated clusters with a wide mass range ($8\times 10^{13} < M_{500}~[$M$_{\odot}]~< 2\times 10^{15}$) to investigate the effect of varying hydrodynamics flavours on cluster mass estimates. The cluster zooms were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Francesca A. Pearce , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes , Richard G. Bower , Matthieu Schaller

Recently, Suzaku has produced temperature and entropy profiles, along with profiles of gas density, gas fraction, and mass, for multiple galaxy clusters out to ~r_200 (~= virial radius). In this paper, we compare these novel X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jack O. Burns , Samuel W. Skillman , Brian W. O'Shea

We investigate the spatial distribution of the baryonic and non-baryonic mass components in a sample of 66 virialized systems. We have used X-ray measurements to determine the deprojected temperature and density structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. R. Sanderson , T. J. Ponman

The eROSITA mission will provide the largest sample of galaxy clusters detected in X-ray to date (one hundred thousand expected). This sample will be used to constrain cosmological models by measuring cluster masses. An important mass proxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 F. Hofmann , J. S. Sanders , N. Clerc , K. Nandra , J. Ridl , K. Dennerl , M. Ramos-Ceja , A. Finoguenov , T. H. Reiprich

(Abridged) The galaxy cluster Abell 2218, at z=0.171, is well-known for the discrepancy between mass estimates derived from X-ray and strong lensing analyses. With the present XMM observation, we trace the gas density and temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. W. Pratt , H. Boehringer , A. Finoguenov

We have simulated the formation of an X-ray cluster in a cold dark matter universe using 12 different codes. The codes span the range of numerical techniques and implementations currently in use, including SPH and grid methods with fixed,…

We derive cosmological constraints using a galaxy cluster sample selected from the 2500~deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey. The sample spans the redshift range $0.25< z<1.75$ and contains 343 clusters with SZ detection significance $\xi>5$. The sample…

We discuss an extended set of Tree+SPH simulations of galaxy clusters, with the goal of investigating the interplay between numerical resolution effects and star-formation/feedback processes. The simulated clusters span the mass range…

The X-ray luminosity and temperature of clusters and groups of galaxies do not scale in a self-similar manner. This has often been interpreted as a sign that the intracluster medium has been substantially heated by non-gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Greg L. Bryan

We present a study of the galaxy population predicted by hydrodynamical simulations for a set of 19 galaxy clusters based on the GADGET-2 Tree+SPH code. These simulations include gas cooling, star formation, a detailed treatment of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Saro , S. Borgani , L. Tornatore , K. Dolag , G. Murante , A. Biviano , F. Calura , S. Charlot