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Gas motions in galaxy clusters play important roles in determining the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) and in the constraint of cosmological parameters via X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations of galaxy clusters. The…

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The degree of turbulent pressure support by residual gas motions in galaxy clusters is not well known. Mass modelling of combined X-ray and Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations provides an estimate of turbulent pressure support in the outer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Angelinelli , F. Vazza , C. Giocoli , S. Ettori , T. W. Jones , G. Brunetti , M. Brüggen , D. Eckert

Studies of cluster mass and velocity anisotropy profiles are useful tests of dark matter models, and of the assembly history of clusters of galaxies. These studies might be affected by unknown systematics caused by projection effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Tania Aguirre Tagliaferro , Andrea Biviano , Gabriella De Lucia , Emiliano Munari , Diego Garcia Lambas

To assume hydrostatic equilibrium between the intracluster medium and the gravitational potential of galaxy clusters is an extensively used method to investigate their total masses. We want to test hydrostatic masses obtained with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Dominik Scheck , Jeremy S. Sanders , Veronica Biffi , Klaus Dolag , Esra Bulbul , Ang Liu

Hydrostatic equilibrium (HE) is often used in observations to estimate galaxy clusters masses. We use a set of almost 300 simulated clusters from The Three Hundred Project, to estimate the cluster HE mass and the bias deriving from it. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Giulia Gianfagna , Elena Rasia , Weiguang Cui , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes

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

We present the mass-X-ray observable scaling relationships for clusters of galaxies using the XMM-Newton cluster catalog of Snowden et al. Our results are roughly consistent with previous observational and theoretical work, with one major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Adrienne M. Juett , David S. Davis , Richard Mushotzky

The exploitation of clusters of galaxies as cosmological probes relies on accurate measurements of their total gravitating mass. X-ray observations provide a powerful means of probing the total mass distribution in galaxy clusters, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rocco Piffaretti , Riccardo Valdarnini

All estimates of cluster mass have some intrinsic scatter and perhaps some bias with true mass even in the absence of measurement errors for example caused by cluster triaxiality and large scale structure. Knowledge of the bias and scatter…

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

We study the uncertainty in galaxy cluster mass estimates derived from X-ray data assuming hydrostatic equilibrium (HE) for the intra cluster gas. Using a Monte-Carlo procedure we generate a general class of mass models allowing very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Balland , A. Blanchard

Galaxy clusters are the largest virialized structures in the Universe and are predominantly dominated by dark matter. The hydrostatic mass and the mass obtained from gravitational lensing measurements generally differ, a discrepancy known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 M. Lawrence Pattersons , Feri Apryandi , Freddy P. Zen

In this paper we investigate the level of hydrostatic equilibrium (HE) in the intra-cluster medium of simulated galaxy clusters, extracted from state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 V. Biffi , S. Borgani , G. Murante , E. Rasia , S. Planelles , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , A. M. Beck , M. Gaspari , K. Dolag

As the end products of the hierarchical process of cosmic structure formation, galaxy clusters present some predictable properties, like those mostly driven by gravity, and some others, more affected by astrophysical dissipative processes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Ettori , L. Lovisari , M. Sereno

We probe the dynamical mass profiles of 10 galaxy clusters from the HIghest X-ray FLUx Galaxy Cluster Sample (HIFLUGCS) using galaxy kinematics. We numerically solve the spherical Jeans equation, and parameterize the dynamical mass profile…

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

We test the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium in an X-ray luminosity selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at $0.15<z<0.3$ from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). Our weak-lensing measurements of $M_{500}$ control…

Using a set of 73 numerically simulated galaxy clusters, we have characterised the statistical and physical biases for three velocity dispersion and mass estimators, namely biweight, gapper and standard deviation, in the small number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Antonio Ferragamo , José Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Emiliano Munari , Barbara Sartoris , Rafael Barrena

Accurate mass determination of clusters of galaxies is crucial if they are to be used as cosmological probes. However, there are some discrepancies between cluster masses determined based on gravitational lensing, and X-ray observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. M. Molnar , I. -N. Chiu , K. Umetsu , P. Chen , N. Hearn , T. Broadhurst , G. Bryan , C. Shang

Galaxy clusters are the endpoints of structure formation and are continuously growing through the merging and accretion of smaller structures. Numerical simulations predict that a fraction of their energy content is not yet thermalized,…

We present a new approach for modelling galaxy/halo bias that utilizes the full non-linear information contained in the moments of the matter density field, which we derive using a set of numerical simulations. Although our method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jennifer E. Pollack , Robert E. Smith , Cristiano Porciani