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We present results from a systematic investigation of the X-ray properties of a sample of moderate redshift (0.3<z<0.6) galaxy groups. These groups were selected not by traditional X-ray or optical search methods, but rather by an…

We present a deep UBI CCD survey using the Palomar 5-m telescope of a sample of high X-ray luminosity, distant clusters selected from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. The 10 clusters lie at z=0.22-0.28, an era where evolutionary effects have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ian Smail , Alastair C. Edge , Richard S. Ellis , Roger D. Blandford

For a detailed comparison of the appearance of cluster of galaxies in X-rays and in the optical, we have compiled a comprehensive database of X-ray and optical properties of a sample of clusters based on the largest available X-ray and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Popesso , H. Boehringer , J. Brinkmann , W. Voges , D. G. York

We present new X-ray temperatures and improved X-ray luminosity estimates for 15 new and archival XMM-Newton observations of galaxy clusters at intermediate redshift with mass and luminosities near the galaxy group/cluster division (M2500 <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Thomas Connor , Megan Donahue , Ming Sun , Henk Hoekstra , Andisheh Mahdavi , Christopher J. Conselice , Brian McNamara

We investigate the regularity of galaxy cluster gas density profiles and the link to the relation between core-excised luminosity, LXc, and mass from the Yx proxy, MYx, for 93 SZE-selected objects. The sample spans masses M500=[0.5 - 20] x…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud , B. J. Maughan , J. -B. Melin

(Abridged) We examine the X-ray luminosity scaling relations of 31 nearby galaxy clusters from the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster Structure Survey (REXCESS). The objects are selected in X-ray luminosity only, optimally sampling the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 G. W. Pratt , J. H. Croston , M. Arnaud , H. Boehringer

Total mass is arguably the most fundamental property for cosmological studies with galaxy clusters. We investigate the present differences in the mass estimates obtained through independent X-ray, weak-lensing, and dynamical studies. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 L. Lovisari , S. Ettori , M. Sereno , G. Schellenberger , W. R. Forman , F. Andrade-Santos , C. Jones

We present a statistical analysis of a sample of 20 strong lensing clusters drawn from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS), based on high resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the cluster cores and follow-up spectroscopic…

We discuss the measurements of the galaxy cluster mass functions at z=~0.05 and z=~0.5 using high-quality Chandra observations of samples derived from the ROSAT PSPC All-Sky and 400deg^2 surveys. We provide a full reference for the data…

Our knowledge of the variety of galaxy clusters has been increasing in the last few years thanks to our progress in understanding the severity of selection effects on samples. To understand the reason for the observed variety, we study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 S. Andreon , A. Moretti , G. Trinchieri , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

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 first measurement of the relationship between the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signal and the mass of galaxy clusters that uses gravitational lensing to measure cluster mass, based on 14 X-ray luminous clusters at z~0.2 from the…

We want to characterize the dynamical state of galaxy clusters detected with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect by Planck and compare them with the dynamical state of clusters selected in X-rays survey. We analyzed a representative subsample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. Rossetti , F. Gastaldello , G. Ferioli , M. Bersanelli , S. De Grandi , D. Eckert , S. Ghizzardi , D. Maino , S. Molendi

We use a cluster sample selected independently of the intracluster medium content with reliable masses to measure the mean gas mass fraction and its scatter, the biases of the X-ray selection on gas mass fraction, and the covariance between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 S. Andreon , J. Wang , G. Trinchieri , A. Moretti , A. L. Serra

The mass of galaxy clusters can be inferred from the temperature of their X-ray emitting gas, $T_{\mathrm{X}}$. Their masses may be underestimated if it is assumed that the gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium, by an amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Holger Israel , Gerrit Schellenberger , Jukka Nevalainen , Richard Massey , Thomas Reiprich

We present a joint weak-lensing/X-ray study of galaxy cluster mass-observable scaling relations, motivated by the critical importance of accurate calibration of mass proxies for future X-ray missions, including eROSITA. We use a sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nobuhiro Okabe , Yu-Ying Zhang , Alexis Finoguenov , Masahiro Takada , Graham P. Smith , Keiichi Umetsu , Toshifumi Futamase

We examine a sample of $\sim 250 000$ "locally brightest galaxies" selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to be central galaxies within their dark matter halos. These were previously stacked by the Planck Collaboration to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael E. Anderson , Massimo Gaspari , Simon D. M. White , Wenting Wang , Xinyu Dai

We present comparison of X-ray proxies for the total cluster mass, including the spectral temperature (Tx), gas mass measured within r500 (Mg), and the new proxy, Yx, which is a simple product of Tx and Mg and is related to the total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Alexey Vikhlinin , Daisuke Nagai

Scaling properties of galaxy cluster observables with mass provide central insights into the processes shaping clusters. Calibrating proxies for cluster mass will be crucial to cluster cosmology with upcoming surveys like eROSITA and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Holger Israel , Thomas H. Reiprich , Thomas Erben , Richard J. Massey , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider , Alexey Vikhlinin