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Clusters of galaxies are useful tools to constrain cosmological parameters, only if their masses can be correctly inferred from observations. In particular, X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect observations can be used to derive masses…

The gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters is a convenient tool to use in the context of cosmological studies. Indeed this quantity allows to constrain the universal baryon fraction $\Omega_b/\Omega_m$, as well as other parameters like the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Raphaël Wicker , Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Nabila Aghanim

Turbulent gas motion inside galaxy clusters provides a non-negligible non-thermal pressure support to the intracluster gas. If not corrected, it leads to a systematic bias in the estimation of cluster masses from X-ray and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-17 Xun Shi , Eiichiro Komatsu , Kaylea Nelson , Daisuke Nagai

The cosmological parameters prefered by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies predict many more galaxy clusters than those that have been detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. This tension has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 G. Hurier , R. E. Angulo

Recent hydrostatic X-ray studies of the hot interstellar medium (ISM) in early-type galaxies underestimate the gravitating mass as compared to stellar dynamics, implying modest, but significant deviations from exact hydrostatic equilibrium.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philip J. Humphrey , David A. Buote , Fabrizio Brighenti , Karl Gebhardt , William G. Mathews

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 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

This is the fourth in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Here, we use measurements of weak gravitational lensing from the Weighing the Giants project to calibrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 D. E. Applegate , A. Mantz , S. W. Allen , A. von der Linden , R. G. Morris , S. Hilbert , P. L. Kelly , D. L. Burke , H. Ebeling , D. A. Rapetti , R. W. Schmidt

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

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

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

The mass of galaxy clusters (GCs) can be determined by calculating the hydrostatic equilibrium equation. In this work, we derive the hydrostatic mass of GCs within Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) theory, beyond Horndeski gravity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Feri Apryandi , M. Lawrence Pattersons

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

The gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters is a convenient probe to use in cosmological studies, as it can help derive constraints on a collection of cosmological parameters. It is however subject to various effects from the baryonic physics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 R. Wicker , M. Douspis , L. Salvati , N. Aghanim

When measuring the observed pressure, density or temperature profiles of the intracluster gas, and hence the mass of clusters of galaxies, projection effects or departures from the spherical symmetry hypothesis may induce biases. In order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-08 Théo Lebeau , Jenny G. Sorce , Nabila Aghanim , Elena Hernández-Martínez , Klaus Dolag

Context. Biases in mass measurements of galaxy clusters are one of the major limiting systematics in constraining cosmology with clusters. Aims. We aim to demonstrate that the systematics associated with cluster gravitational potentials are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. Tchernin , E. T. Lau , S. Stapelberg , D. Hug , M. Bartelmann

We use Enzo, a hybrid Eulerian AMR/N-body code including non-gravitational heating and cooling, to explore the morphology of the X-ray gas in clusters of galaxies and its evolution in current generation cosmological simulations. We employ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Tesla E. Jeltema , Eric J. Hallman , Jack O. Burns , Patrick M. Motl

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

The growth of structure in the Universe is tightly correlated with the cosmological parameters. Galaxy clusters as tracers of the large scale structure are the ideal objects to witness this evolution. The X-ray bright, hot gas in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 G. Schellenberger , T. H. Reiprich

We use a set of 45 simulated clusters with a wide mass range ($8\times 10^{13} < M_{500}~[$M$_{\odot}]~< 2\times 10^{15}$) to investigate the effect of varying hydrodynamics flavours on cluster mass estimates. The cluster zooms were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Francesca A. Pearce , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes , Richard G. Bower , Matthieu Schaller