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We present a method to recover mass profiles of galaxy clusters by combining data on thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) and X-ray imaging, thereby avoiding to use any information on X-ray spectroscopy. This method, which represents a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ameglio , S. Borgani , E. Pierpaoli , K. Dolag , S. Ettori , A. Morandi

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

Obtaining robust galaxy number counts is crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, and submillimetre counts in particular have proven valuable for revising subgrid physics models in cosmological simulations. In confusion-limited surveys,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Yunting Wang , Ryley Hill , Douglas Scott , Tessa Vernstrom

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

In galaxy clusters, hierarchical assembly predicts the formation of stellar substructures and intracluster light (ICL), a diffuse stellar component tracing the global cluster potential. Because these features are extremely faint,…

We provide new constraints on the connection between galaxies in the local universe, identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and dark matter halos and their constituent substructures in the $\Lambda$CDM model using WMAP7…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Rachel M. Reddick , Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker , Peter S. Behroozi

We present the implementation of a halo based method for the reconstruction of the cosmic mass density field. The method employs the mass density distribution of dark matter haloes and its environments computed from cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. C. Muñoz-Cuartas , V. Mueller , J. Forero-Romero

The potential of using cluster clustering for calibrating the mass-observable relation of galaxy clusters has been recognized theoretically for over a decade. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of this technique to achieve high precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Eric J. Baxter , Eduardo Rozo , Bhuvnesh Jain , Eli Rykoff , Risa H. Wechsler

Measurements of the galaxy density and weak-lensing profiles of galaxy clusters typically rely on an assumed cluster center, which is taken to be the brightest cluster galaxy or other proxies for the true halo center. Departure of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Matthew Currie , Kyle Miller , Tae-Hyeon Shin , Eric Baxter , Bhuvnesh Jain

Mass is a fundamental property of galaxy groups and clusters. In theory weak gravitational lensing will enable an approximately unbiased measurement of mass, but parametric methods for extracting cluster masses from data require the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Maggie Lieu , Will M. Farr , Michael Betancourt , Graham P. Smith , Mauro Sereno , Ian G. McCarthy

According to the standard cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, the structure of dark halos including those of galaxy clusters reflects their mass accretion history. Older clusters tend to be more concentrated than younger clusters. Their…

The spatial distribution of massive and luminous galaxies have provided important constraints on the fundamental cosmological parameters and physical processes governing galaxy formation. In this work, we construct and compare independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhongxu Zhai , Andrew Benson , Yun Wang

The distribution of mass in the halos of galaxies and galaxy clusters has been probed observationally, theoretically, and in numerical simulations. Yet there is still confusion about which of several suggested parameterized models is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-11 Ole Host , Steen H. Hansen

The information extracted from large galaxy surveys with the likes of DES, DESI, Euclid, LSST, SKA, and WFIRST will be greatly enhanced if the resultant galaxy catalogues can be cross-correlated with one another. Predicting the nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-15 Philip Bull

We place constraints on the average density (Omega_m) and clustering amplitude (sigma_8) of matter using a combination of two measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the galaxy two-point correlation function, w_p, and the…

Galaxy clustering sets strong constraints on the physics governing galaxy formation and evolution. However, most current models fail to reproduce the clustering of low-mass galaxies on small scales ($r<1Mpc/h$). In this paper we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xi Kang

Estimates of cosmological parameters using galaxy clusters have the scatter in the observable at a given mass as a fundamental parameter. This work computes the amplitude of the scatter for a newly introduced mass proxy, the product of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Andreon

(Abridged) We present a semi-analytic model for Cold Dark Matter halo substructure that can be used as a framework for studying galaxy formation and an ingredient in halo models of galaxy clustering. We perform a comprehensive comparison of…

Accurate measurements of galaxy masses and sizes are key to tracing galaxy evolution over time. Cosmological zoom-in simulations provide an ideal test bed for assessing the recovery of galaxy properties from observations. Here, we utilize…