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The quantity Y_ X, the product of the X-ray temperature T_ X and gas mass M_ g, has recently been proposed as a robust low-scatter mass indicator for galaxy clusters. Using precise measurements from XMM-Newton data of a sample of 10 relaxed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Arnaud , E. Pointecouteau , G. W. Pratt

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

This presentation is a Moriond version of our recent paper (Kravtsov, Vikhlinin & Nagai astro-ph/0603205) where we discussed X-ray proxies for the total cluster mass, including the spectral temperature (Tx), gas mass measured within r500…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Daisuke Nagai

We present the X-ray properties and scaling relations of a flux-limited morphology-unbiased sample of 12 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at redshift around 0.2 based on XMM-Newton observations. The scaled radial profiles are characterized by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Y. Zhang , A. Finoguenov , H. Boehringer , J. -P. Kneib , G. P. Smith , O. Czoske , G. Soucail

We present a spatially-resolved analysis of the temperature and gas density profiles of galaxy clusters at z=0.4-0.7 observed with XMM-Newton. These data are used to derive the total cluster mass within the radius r_500 without assuming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Kotov , A. Vikhlinin

We present a study of multiwavelength X-ray and weak lensing scaling relations for a sample of 50 clusters of galaxies. Our analysis combines Chandra and XMM-Newton data using an energy-dependent cross-calibration. After considering a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Mahdavi , H. Hoekstra , A. Babul , C. Bildfell , T. Jeltema , J. P. Henry

(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

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

Well-determined scaling relations between X-ray observables and cluster mass are essential for using large cluster samples for cosmology. Cluster relations such as the Lx-T, M-T, Lx-M relations, have been investigated extensively, however…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. J. Eckmiller , D. S. Hudson , T. H. Reiprich

We present results based on XMM-Newton observations of a small sample of hot galaxy clusters. Making a full use of XMM-Newton's spectro-imaging capabilities, we have extracted the radial temperature profile and gas density profile, and with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Pointecouteau , M. Arnaud , G. W. Pratt

We present a detailed study of scaling relations between total cluster mass and three mass proxies based on X-ray observables: temperature of the intra-cluster medium, gas mass and the product of the two, Y_X. Our analysis is based on two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Fabjan , S. Borgani , E. Rasia , A. Bonafede , K. Dolag , G. Murante , L. Tornatore

The XXL survey is the largest survey carried out by XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50deg$^2$, the survey contains $\sim450$ galaxy clusters out to a redshift $\sim$2 and to an X-ray flux limit of $\sim5\times10^{-15}erg\,s^{-1}cm^{-2}$.…

We use a sample of 115 galaxy clusters at 0.1<z<1.3 observed with Chandra ACIS-I to investigate the relation between luminosity and Yx (the product of gas mass and temperature). The scatter in the relation is dominated by cluster cores, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. J. Maughan

We report on the analysis of XMM-Newton observations of RX J1347.5-1145 (z=0.451), the most X-ray-luminous galaxy cluster. We present a detailed total and gas mass determination up to large distances (~1.7 Mpc), study the scaling properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Myriam Gitti , Rocco Piffaretti , Sabine Schindler

(Abriged) Assuming that the hydrostatic equilibrium holds between the intracluster medium and the gravitational potential, we constrain the NFW profiles in a sample of 44 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters observed with XMM-Newton in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Ettori , F. Gastaldello , A. Leccardi , S. Molendi , M. Rossetti , D. Buote , M. Meneghetti

(abridged) We investigate the regularity of cluster pressure profiles with REXCESS, a representative sample of 33 local clusters observed with XMM-Newton. The sample spans a mass range of 10^14 M_sun <M_500<10^15 M_sun. We derive an average…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Arnaud , G. W. Pratt , R. Piffaretti , H. Boehringer , J. H. Croston , E. Pointecouteau

We present relations between X-ray luminosity and velocity dispersion (L-sigma), X-ray luminosity and gas mass (L-Mgas), and cluster radius and velocity dispersion (r500-sigma) for 62 galaxy clusters in the HIFLUGCS, an X-ray flux-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. -Y. Zhang , H. Andernach , C. A. Caretta , T. H. Reiprich , H. Boehringer , E. Puchwein , D. Sijacki , M. Girardi

We present the integrated mass profiles for a sample of ten nearby (z<=0.15), relaxed galaxy clusters, covering a temperature range of [2-9]keV, observed with XMM-Newton. The mass profiles were derived from the observed gas density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Pointecouteau , M. Arnaud , G. W. Pratt

Using a sample of ten nearby (z< 0.15), relaxed galaxy clusters in the temperature range [2-9] keV, we have investigated the scaling relation between the mass at various density contrasts (delta=2500,1000,500,200) and the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Arnaud , E. Pointecouteau , G. W. Pratt

We selected an unbiased, flux-limited and almost volume-complete sample of 13 distant, X-ray luminous (DXL, $z\sim 0.3$) clusters and one supplementary cluster at $z=0.2578$ from the REFLEX Survey (the REFLEX-DXL sample). We performed a…

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