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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 present the X-ray properties and scaling relations of a flux-limited morphology-unbiased sample of 12 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at redshift around 0.2 based on XMM-Newton observations. The scaled radial profiles are characterized by…

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(Abriged) Assuming that the hydrostatic equilibrium holds between the intracluster medium and the gravitational potential, we constrain the NFW profiles in a sample of 44 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters observed with XMM-Newton in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Ettori , F. Gastaldello , A. Leccardi , S. Molendi , M. Rossetti , D. Buote , M. Meneghetti

Accurate measurement of galaxy cluster masses is an essential component not only in studies of cluster physics, but also for probes of cosmology. However, different mass measurement techniques frequently yield discrepant results. The SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anne H. Bauer , Charles Baltay , Nancy Ellman , Jonathan Jerke , David Rabinowitz , Richard Scalzo

The properties of clusters of galaxies offer key insights into the assembly process of structure in the universe. Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation in a hierarchical, dark matter dominated universe suggest that galaxy…

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Galaxy clusters are the most recent, gravitationally-bound products of the hierarchical mass accretion over cosmological scales. How the mass is concentrated is predicted to correlate with the total mass in the cluster's halo, with systems…

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We present constraints on the mean matter density, Omega_m, the normalization of the density fluctuation power spectrum, sigma_8, and the dark-energy equation-of-state parameter, w, obtained from measurements of the X-ray luminosity…

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The XXL survey is the largest survey carried out by XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50deg$^2$, the survey contains $\sim450$ galaxy clusters out to a redshift $\sim$2 and to an X-ray flux limit of $\sim5\times10^{-15}erg\,s^{-1}cm^{-2}$.…

We present measurements of the masses of 20 X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts, determined from a weak lensing analysis of deep archival R-band data obtained using the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope. Compared to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Henk Hoekstra

A new X-ray selected and X-ray flux-limited galaxy cluster sample is presented. Based on the ROSAT All-Sky Survey the 63 brightest clusters with galactic latitude |bII| >= 20 deg and flux fx(0.1-2.4 keV) >= 2 * 10^{-11} ergs/s/cm^2 have…

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We present the first scaling relation between weak-lensing galaxy cluster mass, $M_{WL}$, and near-infrared luminosity, $L_K$. Our results are based on 17 clusters observed with wide-field instruments on Subaru, the United Kingdom Infrared…

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Bruna Vajgel , Christine Jones , Paulo A. A. Lopes , William R. Forman , Stephen S. Murray , Andrew Goulding , Felipe Andrade-Santos

The relationships between the X-ray determined bolometric luminosity Lx, the temperature T of the intracluster gas, and the optical measured velocity dispersion sigma of the cluster galaxies are updated for galaxy clusters using the largest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiang-Ping Wu , Yan-Jie Xue , Li-Zhi Fang

We explore how the behavior of galaxy cluster scaling relations are affected by flux-limited selection biases and intrinsic covariance among observable properties. Our models presume log-normal covariance between luminosity (L) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Nord , R. Stanek , E. Rasia , A. E. Evrard

Galaxy cluster mass distribution are potentially useful probes of $\Omega_0$ and the nature of the dark matter. Large clusters will distort the observed shapes of background galaxies through gravitational lensing allowing the measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Philippe Fischer , J. Anthony Tyson

Well-determined scaling relations between X-ray observables and cluster mass are essential for using large cluster samples for cosmology. Cluster relations such as the Lx-T, M-T, Lx-M relations, have been investigated extensively, however…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. J. Eckmiller , D. S. Hudson , T. H. Reiprich

The comparison of the properties of galaxy cluster samples selected using observations in different wavebands may shed light on potential biases of the way in which the samples are assembled. For this comparison, we introduce a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 S. Andreon , G. Trinchieri , A. Moretti

We use the ROSAT all sky survey X-ray cluster catalogs and the optical SDSS DR7 galaxy and group catalogs to cross-identify X-ray clusters with their optical counterparts, resulting in a sample of 201 X-ray clusters in the sky coverage of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Lei Wang , Xiaohu Yang , Wentao Luo , Erwin T. Lau , Yu Wang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Q. D. Wang