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Observational cosmology has become an important laboratory for testing General Relativity, with searches for modified gravity forming a significant portion of the science case for existing and future surveys. In this paper, we illustrate…

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We use high-resolution hydrodynamic re-simulations to investigate the properties of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters. We compare results obtained using different physical models for the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Bonaldi , G. Tormen , K. Dolag , L. Moscardini

The collisionless accretion shock at the outer boundary of a galaxy cluster should primarily heat the ions instead of electrons since they carry most of the kinetic energy of the infalling gas. Near the accretion shock, the density of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-14 Ka-Wah Wong , Craig L. Sarazin , Daniel R. Wik

We present a retuning of the IllustrisTNG baryonic physics model which can be used to run large-box realistic cosmological simulations with a lower resolution. This new model employs a lowered gas density threshold for star formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Myles A. Mitchell , Christian Arnold , Baojiu Li

Use of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect as a precise cosmological probe necessitates a realistic assessment of all possible contributions to Comptonization of the cosmic microwave background in clusters of galaxies. We have calculated the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Meir Shimon , Yoel Rephaeli

We investigate how strongly and at what scales the Sunyaev- Zel'dovich effect reflects the shifting balance between the two processes that compete for governing the density and the thermodynamic state of the hot intra-cluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Cavaliere , N. Menci

We present predicted Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) properties of known X-ray clusters of galaxies for which gas temperature measurements are available. The reference sample was compiled from the BAX database for X-ray clusters. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Luis Ferramacho , Alain Blanchard

We present gas constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements in a sample of eleven X-ray and infrared (IR) selected galaxy clusters at z >=1, using data from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA). The cylindrically integrated…

We propose a new cosmological test of gravity, by using the observed mass fraction of X-ray emitting gas in massive galaxy clusters. The cluster gas fraction, believed to be a fair sample of the average baryon fraction in the Universe, is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Baojiu Li , Jian-hua He , Liang Gao

We analyze measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect arising in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $L^*$ galaxies, reported by Bregman et al. 2022 and Das et al. 2023. In our analysis we use the Faerman et al. 2017 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Yossi Oren , Amiel Sternberg , Christopher F. McKee , Yakov Faerman , Shy Genel

We propose a new framework for testing gravity using cluster observations, which aims to provide an unbiased constraint on modified gravity models from Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray cluster counts and the cluster gas fraction, among…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-10 Myles A. Mitchell , Jian-hua He , Christian Arnold , Baojiu Li

We explore the scaling relation between the flux of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the total mass of galaxy clusters using already reduced Chandra X-ray data present in the ACCEPT (Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. Comis , M. De Petris , A. Conte , L. Lamagna , S. De Gregori

Sensitive surveys of the Cosmic Microwave Background will detect thousands of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Two SZ observables, the central or maximum and integrated Comptonization parameters y_max and Y, relate in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel R. Wik , Craig L. Sarazin , Paul M. Ricker , Scott W. Randall

We analyse cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters to study the X-ray scaling relations between total masses and observable quantities such as X-ray luminosity, gas mass, X-ray temperature, and $Y_{X}$. Three sets of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-26 N. Truong , E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , S. Planelles , V. Biffi , D. Fabjan , A. M. Beck , S. Borgani , K. Dolag , M. Gaspari , G. L. Granato , G. Murante , C. Ragone-Figueroa , L. K. Steinborn

We perform a joint analysis of X-ray and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data using an analytic model that describes the gas properties of galaxy clusters. The joint analysis allows the measurement of the cluster gas mass fraction profile…

X-ray observations of an "entropy floor" in nearby groups and clusters of galaxies offer evidence that important non-gravitational processes, such as radiative cooling and/or "preheating", have strongly influenced the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian G. McCarthy , Arif Babul , Gilbert P. Holder , Michael L. Balogh

We present new measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Infrared Experiment (SuZIE II). We combine these new measurements with previous cluster observations with the SuZIE…

We investigate the connection between a cluster's structural configuration and observable measures of its gas emission that can be obtained in X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) surveys. We present an analytic model for the intracluster gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Andrew Sullivan , Chris Power , Connor Bottrell , Aaron Robotham , Stas Shabala

We show how to simulate the clustering of rich clusters of galaxies using a technique based on the Zel'dovich approximation. This method well reproduces the spatial distribution of clusters obtainable from full N-body simulations at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Borgani , P. Coles , L. Moscardini

Clusters are potentially powerful tools for cosmology provided their observed properties such as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) or X-ray signals can be translated into physical quantities like mass and temperature. Scaling relations are the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 N. Aghanim , A. C. da Silva , N. J. Nunes