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We have extracted over 400 clusters, covering more than 2 decades in mass, from three simulations of the TCDM cosmology. This represents the largest, uniform catalogue of simulated clusters ever produced. The clusters exhibit a wide variety…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. A. Thomas , O. Muanwong , F. R. Pearce , H. M. P. Couchman , A. C. Edge , A. Jenkins , L. Onuora

We address the question of how well the density profile of galaxy clusters can be determined by combining strong lensing and velocity dispersion data. We use cosmological dark matter simulations of clusters to test the reliability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Meneghetti , M. Bartelmann , A. Jenkins , C. Frenk

Recent detection of high-redshift, massive clusters through Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations has opened up a new way to test cosmological models. It is known that detection of a single supermassive cluster at a very high redshift can rule…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-22 Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot

The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Regamey , D. Eckert , R. Seppi , W. Hartley , K. Umetsu , S. Tam , D. Gerolymatou

Context. The intracluster light (ICL) comprises stars that are not bound to individual galaxies within a galaxy cluster, and it provides insights into the cluster mass distribution, evolutionary history, and dynamical state. Aims. We study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 Isaac Alonso Asensio , Ana Contreras-Santos

The caustic technique for measuring mass profiles of galaxy clusters relies on the assumption of spherical symmetry. When applied to aspherical galaxy clusters, the method yields mass estimates affected by the cluster orientation. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jacob Svensmark , Radoslaw Wojtak , Steen H. Hansen

We present a strategy for estimating the mass per unit length along supercluster-scale filaments that are oriented across the sky, based on mock redshift surveys of 264 filaments from the Millennium simulation. In our fiducial scenario, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Mary Crone Odekon , Trevor W. Viscardi , Jake Rabinowitz , Brandon Young

We analyse parallel N-body simulations of three Cold Dark Matter (CDM) universes to study the abundance and clustering of galaxy clusters. The simulations cover a volume comparable to the forthcoming SDSS. We are able to make robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Governato , A. Babul , T. Quinn , P. Tozzi , C. M. Baugh , N. Katz , G. Lake

We test the concordance LCDM cosmology by comparing predictions for the mean properties of galaxy clusters to observations. We use high-resolution N-body simulations of cosmic structure formation and semi-analytic models of galaxy formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White

We outline our methods for obtaining high precision mass profiles, combining independent weak-lensing distortion, magnification, and strong-lensing measurements. For massive clusters the strong and weak lensing regimes contribute equal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Keiichi Umetsu , Tom Broadhurst , Adi Zitrin , Elinor Medezinski , Dan Coe , Marc Postman

[abridged] We present a first cosmological analysis of a refined cluster catalog from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS). The input cluster sample is derived from 72.07 square degrees of imaging data [...] The catalog contains 956…

We present a selection of candidates of clusters and protoclusters of galaxies identified in the photometric data of the HSC-SSP Wide Public Data Release 3 (PDR3), spanning the redshift range $\rm 0.1 \leq z \leq 2$. The selection method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Marcelo C. Vicentin , Laerte Sodré , Michael A. Strauss , Erik V. R. de Lima , Pablo Araya-Araya

We use two high resolution CDM simulations to show that (i) when clusters of galaxies form the infall pattern of matter is not random but shows clear features which are correlated in time; (ii) in addition, the infall patterns are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Colberg , S. D. M. White , A. Jenkins , F. R. Pearce

In this work, we identify and analyse the properties of cluster-cluster filaments within a cosmological simulation assuming that they are structures connecting maxima of the density field defined by dark matter halos with masses $M \, \ge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Luis A. Pereyra , Mario A. Sgró , Manuel E. Merchán , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Dante J. Paz

We have developed a multiscale structure identification algorithm for the detection of overdensities in galaxy data that identifies structures having radii within a user-defined range. Our "multiscale probability mapping" technique combines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anthony G. Smith , Andrew M. Hopkins , Richard W. Hunstead , Kevin A. Pimbblet

We present MMT spectroscopic observations of two massive galaxy cluster candidates at redshift $z\sim0.07$ that show extended and diffuse X-ray emission in the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) images. The targets were selected from a previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Kaiyuan Chen , Weiwei Xu , Linhua Jiang

With the advent of several galaxy surveys targeting star-forming galaxies, it is important to have models capable of interpreting their spatial distribution in terms of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. To address this need, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sara Ortega-Martinez , Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo

Based on the photometric redshift catalog of Zou H. et al. (2019), we apply a fast clustering algorithm to identify 540,432 galaxy clusters at $z\lesssim1$ in the DESI legacy imaging surveys, which cover a sky area of about 20,000 deg$^2$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Hu Zou , Jinghua Gao , Xin Xu , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Zhimin Zhou , Tianmeng Zhang , Jundan Nie , Jiali Wang , Suijian Xue

Rich and massive clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift are capable of magnifying and distorting the images of background galaxies. A comparison of different mass estimators among these clusters can provide useful information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Xiang-Ping Wu , Tzihong Chiueh , Li-Zhi Fang , Yan-Jie Xue

The mass of a cluster of galaxies can be estimated from its lens magnification, which can be determined from the variation in number counts of background galaxies. In order to derive the mass one needs to make assumptions for the lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eelco van Kampen