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We cross-correlate the 100 um Improved Reprocessing of the IRAS Survey (IRIS) map and galaxy clusters at 0.1 < z < 0.3 in the maxBCG catalogue taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, measuring an angular cross-power spectrum over multipole…

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We investigate how the dynamical state of galaxy clusters influences their galaxy populations and mass distributions. Using photometrically selected clusters from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey cross-matched with the UNIONS galaxy shear…

We present a study of the evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in a sample of clusters at $0.05 \leq z<0.35$ from the SDSS and WISE with halo masses in the range $6 \times 10^{13}M_\odot$ (massive groups) - $10^{15.5}M_\odot$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 Pierluigi Cerulo , Gustavo A. Orellana , Giovanni Covone

We present a comprehensive space-based study of ten X-ray luminous galaxy clusters (L_X>=8e44erg/s[0.1-2.4keV]) at z=0.2. Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal numerous gravitationally-lensed arcs for which we present four new…

We investigate the near infrared evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) from a sample of rich galaxy clusters since z=1. By employing an X-ray selection of Lx>1e44 erg s-1 we limit environmental effects by selecting BCGs in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. P. Stott , A. C. Edge , G. P. Smith , A. M. Swinbank , H. Ebeling

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

X-ray images of galaxy clusters often show disturbed structures that are indication of cluster mergers. As a complementary to our previous work on dynamical state of 964 clusters observed by the Chandra, we process the X-ray images for 1308…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. S. Yuan , J. L. Han , Z. L. Wen

We study the impact of cluster environment on the morphology of a sample of 4304 extended radio galaxies from Radio Galaxy Zoo. A total of 87% of the sample lies within a projected 15 Mpc of an optically identified cluster. Brightest…

Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) show exceptional properties over the whole electromagnetic spectrum. Their special location at the centres of galaxy clusters raises the question of the role of the environment on their radio properties. To…

We use the RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster sample to compare the quality of optical and X-ray luminosities as predictors of other cluster properties such as their masses, temperatures, and velocity dispersions. We use the SDSS spectroscopic data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 P. Popesso , A. Biviano , H. Bhoeringer , M. Romaniello , W. Voges

We stacked the X-ray data from the ROSAT All Sky Survey for over 4,000 clusters selected from the 2MASS catalog and divided into five richness classes. We detected excess X-ray emission over background at the center of the stacked images in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xinyu Dai , Christopher S. Kochanek , Nicholas D. Morgan

We present an analysis of the X-ray bright point source population in 43 massive clusters of galaxies observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We have constructed a catalog of 4210 rigorously selected X-ray point sources in these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Ehlert , S. W. Allen , W. N. Brandt , Y. Q. Xue , B. Luo , A. von der Linden , A. Mantz , R. G. Morris

We present the results of our dynamical state proxy measurements performed on 28 strong lensing galaxy clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey (SGAS). Using Chandra ACIS-I/S X-ray data supplemented with HST WFC3 imaging, we measure four…

Clusters of galaxies need to be investigated using complementary approaches combining all currently available observational techniques (X-ray, gravitational lensing, dynamics, SZ) on homogeneous samples if one wants to understand their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oliver Czoske , Jean-Paul Kneib , Sebastien Bardeau

A study of the globular cluster systems of 23 brightest, or central, galaxies in 19 Abell clusters has recently been completed. This Letter presents some of the newly discovered correlations of the globular cluster specific frequency $S_N$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John P. Blakeslee

We present the first sample of 882 optically selected galaxy clusters in the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), selected with the Bayesian Cluster Finder. We create mock DLS data to assess completeness and purity rates, and find that both are at least…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Begoña Ascaso , David Wittman , William Dawson

The most dynamically relaxed clusters of galaxies play a special role in cosmological studies as well as astrophysical studies of the intracluster medium (ICM) and active galactic nucleus feedback. While high spatial resolution imaging of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Madeline C. Casas , Ky Putnam , Adam B. Mantz , Steven W. Allen , Taweewat Somboonpanyakul

Cosmological theories suggest that the angular momentum of galaxies should be closely linked to the structure of the cosmic web. The Local Supercluster is the closest and most studied structure where the orientation of galaxy spins can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 P. Dolgosheeva , D. Makarov , N. Libeskind

We test the predictions of Emergent Gravity using matter densities of relaxed, massive clusters of galaxies using observations from optical and X-ray wavebands. We improve upon previous work in this area by including the baryon mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John A. ZuHone , Jacob R. Sims

Using a large N-body cosmological simulation combined with a subgrid treatment of galaxy formation, we study the formation and evolution of the galaxy and cluster population in a comoving volume (100 Mpc)^3 in a LCDM universe. At z = 0, our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hugo Martel , Fidèle Robichaud , Paramita Barai