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We present the reconstruction of hydrostatic mass profiles in 13 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters that have been mapped in their X-ray and SZ signal out to $R_{200}$ for the XMM-Newton Cluster Outskirts Project (X-COP). Using profiles of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 S. Ettori , V. Ghirardini , D. Eckert , E. Pointecouteau , F. Gastaldello , M. Sereno , M. Gaspari , S. Ghizzardi , M. Roncarelli , M. Rossetti

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) was originally proposed to model galaxy rotation curves without dark matter. However, MOND presents difficulties in explaining the Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) observed in galaxy clusters, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Robert Monjo

Simulations of cluster formation have demonstrated that condensation of baryons into central galaxies during cluster formation can drive the shape of the gas distribution in galaxy clusters significantly rounder, even at radii as large as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrew R. Zentner

Galaxy clusters are the most recent products of hierarchical accretion over cosmological scales. The gas accreted from the cosmic field is thermalized inside the cluster halo. Gas entropy and pressure are expected to have a self-similar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 V. Ghirardini , S. Ettori , S. Amodeo , R. Capasso , M. Sereno

We characterize the non-sphericity of galaxy clusters by the projected axis ratio of spatial distribution of star, dark matter, and X-ray surface brightness (XSB). We select 40 simulated groups and clusters of galaxies with mass larger than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Daichi Suto , Sebastien Peirani , Yohan Dubois , Tetsu Kitayama , Takahiro Nishimichi , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

The location of a galaxy cluster's centroid is typically derived from observations of the galactic and/or gas component of the cluster, but these typically deviate from the true centre. This can produce bias when observations are combined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Z. Yan , N. Raza , L. Van Waerbeke , A. J. Mead , I. G. McCarthy , T. Troester , G. Hinshaw

I investigate an analytical model of galaxy clusters based on the assumption that the intracluster medium plasma is polytropic and is in hydrostatic equilibrium. The Einasto profile is adopted as a model for the spatial-density distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Mohammad S. Mirakhor

We use the MACSIS hydrodynamical simulations to estimate the extent of gas clumping in the intracluster medium of massive galaxy clusters and how it affects the hydrostatic mass bias. By comparing the clumping to the azimuthal scatter in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Imogen Towler , Scott Kay , Edoardo Altamura

Using N-body+hydro simulations we study relations between the local environments of galaxies on 0.5 Mpc scale and properties of the luminous components of galaxies. Our numerical simulations include effects of star formation and supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Elizondo , G. Yepes , R. Kates , A. Klypin

We reanalyze the strong lens modeling of the cluster of galaxies MS2137-23 using a new data set obtained with the ESO VLT. We found the photometric redshifts of the two main arc systems are both at z=1.6. After subtraction of the central cD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Gavazzi , B. Fort , Y. Mellier , R. Pello , M. Dantel-Fort

AIMS. While weak lensing cannot resolve cluster cores and strong lensing is almost insensitive to density profiles outside the scale radius, combinations of both effects promise to constrain density profiles of galaxy clusters well, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Merten , M. Cacciato , M. Meneghetti , C. Mignone , M. Bartelmann

Several physical processes and formation events are expected in cluster outskirts, a vast region up to now essentially not covered by observations. The recent Suzaku (X-ray) and Planck (Sunayev-Zeldovich effect) observations out to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Fusco-Femiano , A. Lapi

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

Aiming at comparing different morphological models of galaxy clusters, we use two new methods to make a cosmological model-independent test of the distance-duality (DD) relation. The luminosity distances come from Union2 compilation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-18 Xiao-Lei Meng , Tong-Jie Zhang , Hu Zhan , Xin Wang

The mass of galaxy clusters is a critical quantity for probing cluster cosmology and testing theories of gravity, but its measurement could be biased given assumptions are inevitable. In this paper, we employ and compare two mass proxies…

We present a detailed study of the integrated total hydrostatic mass profiles of the five most massive ($M^{\mathrm{SZ}}_{500} > 5 \times 10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$) galaxy clusters selected at $z\sim1$ via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Iacopo Bartalucci , Monique Arnaud , Gabriel W. Pratt , Amandine M. C. Le Brun

The masses of galaxy clusters are commonly measured from X-ray observations under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium (HSE). This technique is known to underestimate the true mass systematically. The fiducial FLAMINGO cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Joey Braspenning , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Roi Kugel , Scott T. Kay

We study the relative fraction of galaxy morphological types in clusters, as a function of the projected local galaxy density and different global parameters: cluster projected gas density, cluster projected total mass density , and reduced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Mariano Dominguez , Hernan Muriel , Diego G. Lambas

We show how hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy clusters can be quantitatively probed combining X-ray, SZ, and gravitational-lensing data. Our previously published method for recovering three-dimensional cluster gas distributions avoids the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ewald Puchwein , Matthias Bartelmann

We analyse Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of a set of galaxy clusters selected by the South Pole Telescope using a new publicly-available forward-modelling projection code, MBProj2, assuming hydrostatic equilibrium. By fitting a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian , H. R. Russell , S. A. Walker