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We revisit the picture of X-ray emission of groups through the study of systematic differences in the optical properties of groups with and without X-ray emission and study the effect of large-scale density field on scaling relations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 S. Damsted , A. Finoguenov , H. Lietzen , G. A. Mamon , J. Comparat , E. Tempel , I. Dmitrieva , N. Clerc , C. Collins , G. Gozaliasl , D. Eckert

The identification of X-ray and CMB sources as galaxy groups and clusters is a prerequisite for cluster cosmology. But the identification of groups, especially nearby ones, suffers from projection effects which in turn affect the purity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 J. Kosowski , A. Finoguenov , E. Tempel , G. A. Mamon

We present new Chandra observations of a high redshift (z~1) galaxy cluster discovered in the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS): RCS043938-2904.7. X-ray luminosity measurements and mass estimates are consistent with L_X-T_X and M_delta-T_X…

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the first 36 XMM-Newton pointings on the COSMOS field. We reach a depth for a total cluster flux in the 0.5-2 keV band of 3x10-15 ergs cm-2 s-1, having one of the widest XMM-Newton…

We directly compare X-ray and optical techniques of cluster detection by combining SDSS photometric data with a wide-field ($\sim 1.8$ deg$^{2}$) XMM-{\em Newton} survey in the North Galactic Pole region. The optical cluster detection…

We present X-ray and optical properties of the optically confirmed galaxy cluster sample from the 3XMM/SDSS Stripe 82 cluster survey. The sample includes 54 galaxy clusters in the redshift range of 0.05-1.2, with a median redshift of 0.36.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-18 Ali Takey , Florence Durret , Isabel Márquez , Amael Ellien , Mona Molham , Adèle Plat

RedGOLD searches for red-sequence galaxy overdensities while minimizing contamination from dusty star-forming galaxies. It imposes an NFW profile and calculates cluster detection significance and richness. We optimize these latter two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-15 Rossella Licitra , Simona Mei , Anand Raichoor , Thomas Erben , Hendrik Hildebrandt

Context. Clusters of galaxies are important for cosmology and astrophysics. They may be discovered through either the summed optical/IR radiation originating from their member galaxies or via X-ray emission originating from the hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Alexey Mints , Axel Schwope , Simon Rosen , François-Xavier Pineau , Francisco Carrera

Reducing the scatter between cluster mass and optical richness is a key goal for cluster cosmology from photometric catalogs. We consider various modifications to the red-sequence matched filter richness estimator of Rozo et al. (2009), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. S. Rykoff , B. P. Koester , E. Rozo , J. Annis , A. E. Evrard , S. M. Hansen , J. Hao , D. E. Johnston , T. A. McKay , R. H. Wechsler

We present followup optical g', r', and i', imaging and spectroscopy of serendipitous X-ray sources detected in 6 archival Chandra, images included in the Chandra, Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP). Of the 486 X-ray sources detected between…

We present a galaxy cluster survey based on XMM-Newton observations that are located in Stripe 82 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The survey covers an area of 11.25 deg$^2$. The X-ray cluster candidates were selected as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Ali Takey , Florence Durret , Eman A. Mahmoud , Gamal B. Ali

Taking advantage of $\sim4700$ deg$^2$ optical coverage of the Southern sky offered by the VST ATLAS survey, we construct a new catalogue of photometrically selected galaxy groups and clusters using the {\sc orca} cluster detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 B. Ansarinejad , D. N. A. Murphy , T. Shanks , N. Metcalfe

We report the identification of a positive cross-correlation signal between the unresolved $\gamma$-ray emission, measured by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope, and four different galaxy cluster catalogues. The selected catalogues peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Manuel Colavincenzo , Xiuhui Tan , Simone Ammazzalorso , Stefano Camera , Marco Regis , Jun-Qing Xia , Nicolao Fornengo

We develop a galaxy cluster finding algorithm based on spectral clustering technique to identify optical counterparts and estimate optical redshifts for X-ray selected cluster candidates. As an application, we run our algorithm on a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-15 Eman Mahmoud , Ali Takey , Amin Shoukry

We present the RASS-MCMF catalog of 8,465 X-ray selected galaxy clusters over 25,000 deg$^2$ of extragalactic sky. The accumulation of deep, multiband optical imaging data, the development of the Multi-Component Matched Filter cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Matthias Klein , Daniel Hernández-Lang , Joseph J Mohr , Sebastian Bocquet , Aditya Singh

Counts of galaxy clusters offer a high-precision probe of cosmology, but control of systematic errors will determine the accuracy of this measurement. Using Buzzard simulations, we quantify one such systematic, the triaxiality distribution…

Machine-learning methods are increasingly applied to astronomical surveys, providing powerful tools for detecting and studying galaxy clusters. We investigate the mass-redshift properties and completeness of the ComPACT galaxy cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 S. Voskresenskaia , N. Lyskova , I. Zaznobin , A. Meshcheryakov

We present a catalog of 200 clusters of galaxies serendipitously detected in 647 ROSAT PSPC pointings covering 158 square degrees. This is one of the largest X-ray selected cluster samples, comparable in size only to the ROSAT All-Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Vikhlinin. B. R. McNamara , W. Forman , C. Jones , H. Quintana , A. Hornstrup

Using archival X-ray observations and a log-normal population model, we estimate constraints on the intrinsic scatter in halo mass at fixed optical richness for a galaxy cluster sample identified in Dark Energy Survey Year-One (DES-Y1) data…