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We test the reliability of mass determination in clusters of galaxies by X-ray observations. The true mass in cluster models is compared to the mass derived by the X-ray emission and X-ray temperature of a model assuming hydrostatic…

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We use cosmological gas dynamic simulations to investigate the accuracy of galaxy cluster mass estimates based on X-ray observations. The experiments follow the formation of clusters in different cosmological models and include the effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 August E. Evrard , Christopher A. Metzler , Julio F. Navarro

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We aim at investigating potential biases in lensing and X-ray methods to measure the cluster mass profiles. We do so by performing realistic simulations of lensing and X-ray observations that are subsequently analyzed using observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Meneghetti , E. Rasia , J. Merten , F. Bellagamba , S. Ettori , P. Mazzotta , K. Dolag

We present results on the total mass and temperature determination using two samples of clusters of galaxies. One sample is constructed with emphasis on the completeness of the sample, while the advantage of the other is the use of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 A. Finoguenov , T. H. Reiprich , H. Boehringer

We study the projection effects on various observables of clusters of galaxies at redshift near zero, including cluster richness, velocity dispersion, X-ray luminosity, three total mass estimates (velocity-based, temperature-based and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Renyue Cen

We use gas-dynamical simulations of galaxy clusters to compare their X-ray and strong lensing properties. Special emphasis is laid on mass estimates. The cluster masses range between 6 x 10^14 solar masses and 4 x 10^15 solar masses, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Bartelmann , Matthias Steinmetz

We examine the relationship between the mass and x-ray gas temperature of galaxy clusters using data drawn from the literature. Simple theoretical arguments suggest that the mass of a cluster is related to the x-ray temperature as $M…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald J. Horner , Richard F. Mushotzky , Caleb A. Scharf

We present the mass-X-ray observable scaling relationships for clusters of galaxies using the XMM-Newton cluster catalog of Snowden et al. Our results are roughly consistent with previous observational and theoretical work, with one major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Adrienne M. Juett , David S. Davis , Richard Mushotzky

We investigate the impact of mergers on the mass estimation of galaxy clusters using $N$-body + hydrodynamical simulation data. We estimate virial mass from these data and compare it with real mass. When the smaller subcluster's mass is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Motokazu Takizawa , Ryo Nagino , Kyoko Matsushita

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

We examine the systematics affecting the X-ray mass estimators applied to a set of five simulated galaxy clusters. They have been processed through the X-ray Map Simulator, X-MAS, to provide Chandra-like long exposures that are analyzed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Rasia , S. Ettori , L. Moscardini , P. Mazzotta , S. Borgani , K. Dolag , G. Tormen , L. M. Cheng , A. Diaferio

We present a statistical comparison of three different estimates of cluster mass, namely, the dynamical masses obtained from the velocity dispersion of optical galaxies, the X-ray masses measured from the temperature of X-ray emitting gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Xiang-Ping Wu , Li-Zhi Fang

The use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes hinges on our ability to measure their masses accurately and with high precision. Hydrostatic mass is one of the most common methods for estimating the masses of individual galaxy clusters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-12 Kaylea Nelson , Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai , Douglas H. Rudd , Liang Yu

Galaxy cluster mass determinations achieved using X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data combined with the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium are generally biased. The bias exists for two main reasons: non-thermal pressure forces are expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-02 Davide Martizzi , Harrison Agrusa

The number density of galaxy clusters as a function of mass and redshift is a sensitive function of the cosmological parameters. To use clusters for cosmological parameter studies, it is necessary to determine their masses as accurately as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. ZuHone , Y. E. Bahar , V. Biffi , K. Dolag , J. Sanders , E. Bulbul , T. Liu , T. Dauser , O. König , X. Zhang , V. Ghirardini

Accurate and precise measurements of masses of galaxy clusters are key to derive robust constraints on cosmological parameters. Rising evidence from observations, however, confirms that X-ray masses, obtained under the assumption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 S. Ansarifard , E. Rasia , V. Biffi , S. Borgani , W. Cui , M. De Petris , K. Dolag , S. Ettori , S. M. S. Movahed , G. Murante , G. Yepes

The abundance of clusters of galaxies is known to be a potential source of cosmological constraints through their mass function. In the present work, we examine the information that can be obtained from the temperature distribution function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-01 Stéphane Ilic , Alain Blanchard , Marian Douspis

High-resolution N-body simulations are used to investigate systematic trends in the mass profiles and total masses of clusters as derived from 3 simple estimators: (1) the weak gravitational lensing shear field under the assumption of an…

As the end products of the hierarchical process of cosmic structure formation, galaxy clusters present some predictable properties, like those mostly driven by gravity, and some others, more affected by astrophysical dissipative processes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Ettori , L. Lovisari , M. Sereno
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