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We analyze a rich dataset including Subaru/SuprimeCam, HST/ACS and WFC3, Keck/DEIMOS, Chandra/ACIS-I, and JVLA/C and D array for the merging galaxy cluster ZwCl 0008.8+5215. With a joint Subaru/HST weak gravitational lensing analysis, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Nathan Golovich , Reinout J. van Weeren , William A. Dawson , M. James Jee , David Wittman

X-ray and radio observations of CIZA J2242.8+5301 suggest that it is a major cluster merger. Despite being well studied in the X-ray, and radio, little has been presented on the cluster structure and dynamics inferred from its galaxy…

ZwCl 2341.1+0000, a merging galaxy cluster with disturbed X-ray morphology and widely separated ($\sim$3 Mpc) double radio relics, was thought to be an extremely massive ($10-30 \times 10^{14} M_\odot$) and complex system with little known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Bryant Benson , David M. Wittman , Nathan Golovich , M. James Jee , Reinout J. van Weeren , William A. Dawson

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength analysis of the merging galaxy cluster MACS~J0417.5-1154 at a redshift of $z=0.44$, using available images red obtained with \chandra\ in X-ray, {\it Subaru}, {\it Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 M. B. Pandge , R. Monteiro-Oliveira , J. Bagchi , A. Simionescu , M. Limousin , S. Raychaudhury

We present a detailed analysis of a young merging galaxy cluster \mac~(z=0.43), from {\it Chandra} X-ray and {\it Hubble Space Telescope} archival data. X-ray observations confirm that the X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium (ICM) in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 M. B. Pandge , Joydeep Bagchi , S. S. Sonkamble , Viral Parekh , M. K. Patil , Pratik Dabhade , Nilam R Navale , Somak Raychaudhury , Jacob Joe

We investigate the physical properties, geometry and dynamics of the massive cluster merger MACS J0140.0-0555 (z=0.451) using X-ray and optical diagnostics. Featuring two galaxy overdensities separated by about 250 kpc in projection on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 I-Ting Ho , Harald Ebeling , Johan Richard

Galaxy cluster mergers that exhibit clear dissociation between their dark matter, intracluster gas, and stellar components are great laboratories for probing dark matter properties. Mergers that are binary and in the plane of the sky have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Rodrigo Stancioli , David Wittman , Kyle Finner , Faik Bouhrik

We present results of a combined X-ray/optical analysis of the dynamics of the massive cluster MACS J0358.8-2955 (z=0.428) based on observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Keck-I telescope on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Li-Yen Hsu , Harald Ebeling , Johan Richard

We present Advanced Camera for Surveys observations of MACSJ1149.5+2223, an X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z=0.544 discovered by the Massive Cluster Survey. The data reveal at least seven multiply-imaged galaxies, three of which we have…

We use a joint optical/X-ray analysis to constrain the geometry and history of the ongoing merging event in the massive galaxy cluster MACSJ0416.1-2403 (z=0.397). Our investigation of cluster substructure rests primarily on a combined…

A115 is a merging galaxy cluster at $z\sim0.2$ with a number of remarkable features including a giant ($\sim2.5$ Mpc) radio relic, two asymmetric X-ray peaks with trailing tails, and a peculiar line-of-sight velocity structure. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Mincheol Kim , M. James Jee , Kyle Finner , Nathan Golovich , David M. Wittman , R. J. van Weeren , W. A. Dawson

We present a gravitational lensing and X-ray analysis of a massive galaxy cluster and its surroundings. The core of MACS\,J0717.5+3745 ($M(R<1\,{\rm Mpc})\sim$\,$2$$\times$$10^{15}\,\msun$, $z$=$0.54$) is already known to contain four…

We present results of a gravitational-lensing and optical study of MACS ,J1423.8+2404 (z=0.545, MACS, J1423). Our analysis uses high-resolution images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in the F555W and F814W passbands, ground based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Limousin , H. Ebeling , C. -J. Ma , A. M. Swinbank , G. P. Smith , J. Richard , A. C. Edge , M. Jauzac , J. -P. Kneib , P. Marshall , T. Schrabback

CIZA J2242.8+5301 is a merging system with a prominent (~2 Mpc long) radio relic, which together with the morphology of the X-ray emission provides strong evidence for a violent collision along the N-S axis. We present our constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. James Jee , Andra Stroe , William Dawson , David Wittman , Henk Hoekstra , Marcus Bruggen , Huub Rottggering , David Sobral , Reinout J. van Weeren

We present 5.5 and 9.0 GHz Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations of the cluster MACSJ0417.5-1154, one of the most massive galaxy clusters and one of the brightest in X-ray in the Massive Cluster Survey (MACS). We estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Pritpal Sandhu , Siddharth Malu , Ramij Raja , Abhirup Datta

Measurements of the total logarithmic central slope of the mass profile in galaxy clusters constrain their evolution and assembly history and that of their brightest cluster galaxies. We report the first full surface brightness distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-28 Stefan Rau , Simona Vegetti , Simon D. M. White

Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) might have been assembled relatively late (z<1) via mergers. By exploiting the high-resolution HST/ACS imaging, we find four BCGs (COSMOS-P 125516, 102810, 036694 and 089357) in major dry merging in 29…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 F. S. Liu , F. J. Lei , X. M. Meng , D. F. Jiang

Merging galaxy clusters produce low Mach number shocks in the intracluster medium. These shocks can accelerate electrons to relativistic energies that are detectable at radio frequencies. MACS J0744.9+3927 is a massive ($M_{500} = (11.8 \pm…

The galaxy cluster RXC J0032.1+1808 has been well-studied with optical imaging and gravitational lensing mass maps, both of which reveal an elongated morphology in the north-south direction. We find that its X-ray morphology is bimodal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 David Wittman , Rodrigo Stancioli , Faik Bouhrik , Reinout van Weeren , Andrea Botteon

We analyse the kinematical and dynamical state of the galaxy cluster RXCJ1230.7+3439, at z=0.332, using 93 new spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies acquired at the 3.6m TNG telescope and from SDSS DR16 public data. We find that RXCJ1230…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 R. Barrena , H. Böhringer , G. Chon
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