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We investigate a sample of 14 galaxy clusters from the GOGREEN and GCLASS (GG) spectroscopic datasets within the redshift range $(0.87 \leq z \leq 1.37)$ and cluster masses $\mathrm{M}_{200} \gtrsim 2\times 10^{14}$ \hm. Using the highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-06 Shrouk Abdulshafy , Mohamed H. Abdullah , Gillian Wilson , Michael L. Balogh , Raouf H. Mabrouk

We consider the dynamics in and near galaxy clusters. Gas, dark matter and galaxies are presently falling into the clusters between approximately 1 and 5 virial radii. At very large distances, beyond 10 virial radii, all matter is following…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 L. Albaek , S. H. Hansen , D. Martizzi , B. Moore , R. Teyssier

The dynamical state of galaxy clusters describes if clusters are relaxed dynamically or in a merging process of subclusters. By using archival images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we derive a set of parameters to describe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. S. Yuan , J. L. Han

Using high-resolution non-radiative hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters we obtain simple analytic formulae for DM and gas distribution in the spherical approximation. We derive fits for the DM density, velocity dispersion and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elena Rasia , Giuseppe Tormen , Lauro Moscardini

X-ray images of galaxy clusters often show disturbed structures that are indication of cluster mergers. As a complementary to our previous work on dynamical state of 964 clusters observed by the Chandra, we process the X-ray images for 1308…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. S. Yuan , J. L. Han , Z. L. Wen

We address the problem of evaluating the power spectrum of the velocity field of the ICM using only information on the plasma density fluctuations, which can be measured today by Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories. We argue that for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 I. Zhuravleva , E. Churazov , A. A. Schekochihin , E. T. Lau , D. Nagai , M. Gaspari , S. W. Allen , K. Nelson , I. J. Parrish

Dynamical state of galaxy clusters is closely related to their observational properties in X-ray, optical and radio wavelengths. We develop a method to diagnose the substructure and dynamical state of galaxy clusters by using photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-16 Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

By combining galaxy tracers from high-resolution N-body and hydrodynamical simulations, we present a consistent picture of the behaviour of galaxy velocities in massive clusters. In haloes above ~ 10^14 Msun, the brightest satellite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-20 Hao-Yi Wu , Oliver Hahn , August E. Evrard , Risa H. Wechsler , Klaus Dolag

In this work we investigate the influence of the dynamic state of galaxy clusters on segregation effects and velocity dispersion profiles (VDPs) for a sample of 111 clusters extracted from SDSS-DR7. We find that 73 clusters have Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Raquel S. Nascimento , Paulo A. A. Lopes , André L. B. Ribeiro , Alisson P. Costa , Dailer F. Morell

Numerous metrics exist to quantify the dynamical state of galaxy clusters, both observationally and within simulations. Many of these correlate strongly with one another, but it is not clear whether all of these measures probe the same…

In this paper we investigate the velocity dispersion profiles of clusters of galaxies for seven cosmological models. One model is the SCDM model, and the others are six low-density models with the density parameter $\Omega=0.1$, 0.2 or 0.3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. P. Jing , G. Boerner

The relationship between the X-ray determined temperature $T$ of the intracluster gas and the optical measured velocity dispersion $\sigma$ of the cluster galaxies is often believed to be not only a straightforward but also robust test for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang-Ping Wu , Li-Zhi Fang , Wen Xu

Using the DIANOGA hydrodynamical zoom-in simulation set of galaxy clusters, we analyze the dynamics traced by stars belonging to the Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and their surrounding diffuse component, forming the intracluster light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-06 I. Marini , S. Borgani , A. Saro , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , B. Sartoris , K. Dolag , G. Murante , A. Ragagnin , Y. Wang

Most studies of correlations between X-ray and optical properties of galaxy clusters have used the largest samples of data available, regardless of the morphological types of clusters included. Given the increasing evidence that morphology…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Christina M. Bird , Richard F. Mushotzky , Christopher A. Metzler

We investigate the importances of various dynamical features in predicting the dynamical state (DS) of galaxy clusters, based on the Random Forest (RF) machine learning approach. We use a large sample of galaxy clusters from the Three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-14 Qingyang Li , Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Weiguang Cui , Federico De Luca , Xiaohu Yang , Yanrui Zhou , Rui Shi

We follow the dynamical evolution of young star-forming regions with a wide range of initial conditions and examine how the radial velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, evolves over time. We compare this velocity dispersion to the theoretically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Richard J. Parker , Nicholas J. Wright

We consider a sample of about 50 distant galaxy clusters at z>0.15 (<z> about 0.3), each cluster having at least 10 galaxies with available redshift in the literature. We select member galaxies, analyze the velocity dispersion profiles, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Girardi , M. Mezzetti , A. Devetak

If a galaxy cluster is effectively in dynamical equilibrium then all galaxy populations within the cluster must have distributions in velocity and position that individually reflect the same underlying mass distribution, although the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Carlberg , Yee , Ellingson , Morris , Abraham , Gravel , Pritchet , Smecker-Hane , Hartwick , Hesser , Hutchings , Oke

Galaxy cluster masses, rich with cosmological information, can be estimated from internal dark matter (DM) velocity dispersions, which in turn can be observationally inferred from satellite galaxy velocities. However, galaxies are biased…

We present a precise estimate of the bulk virial scaling relation of halos formed via hierarchical clustering in an ensemble of simulated cold dark matter cosmologies. The result is insensitive to cosmological parameters, the presence of a…

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