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We present the first comparison between properties of clusters of galaxies detected by the eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS) and the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS). We have compared, in an ensemble fashion, properties from the eFEDS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 D. J. Turner , P. A. Giles , A. K. Romer , R. Wilkinson , E. W. Upsdell , M. Klein , P. T. P. Viana , M. Hilton , S. Bhargava , C. A. Collins , R. G. Mann , M. Sahlén , J. P. Stott

We use cosmological gas dynamic simulations to investigate the accuracy of galaxy cluster mass estimates based on X-ray observations. The experiments follow the formation of clusters in different cosmological models and include the effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 August E. Evrard , Christopher A. Metzler , Julio F. Navarro

The eROSITA X-ray telescope, launched in 2019, is predicted to observe roughly 100,000 galaxy clusters. Follow-up observations of these clusters from Chandra, for example, will be needed to resolve outstanding questions about galaxy cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 John Soltis , Michelle Ntampaka , John Wu , John ZuHone , August Evrard , Arya Farahi , Matthew Ho , Daisuke Nagai

The exploitation of clusters of galaxies as cosmological probes relies on accurate measurements of their total gravitating mass. X-ray observations provide a powerful means of probing the total mass distribution in galaxy clusters, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rocco Piffaretti , Riccardo Valdarnini

The cosmological constraining power of modern galaxy cluster catalogs can be improved by obtaining low-scatter mass proxy measurements for even a small fraction of sources. In the context of large upcoming surveys that will reveal the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-04 Adam B. Mantz , Steven W. Allen , R. Glenn Morris , Anja von der Linden

X-ray selected surveys of clusters of galaxies have been reported to contain more regular cool core clusters compared to samples selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Morphology population studies on X-ray selected clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 J. S. Sanders , Y. E. Bahar , E. Bulbul , N. Clerc , J. Comparat , M. Kluge , A. Liu , N. Malavasi , M. E. Ramos-Ceja , T. H. Reiprich , F. Balzer , V. Ghirardini , F. Pacaud , X. Zhang

Groups and clusters of galaxies are a current focus of astronomical research owing to their role in determining the environmental effects on galaxies and the constraints they provide to cosmology. The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Finoguenov , A. Merloni , J. Comparat , K. Nandra , M. Salvato , E. Tempel , A. Raichoor , J. Richard , J. -P. Kneib , A. Pillepich , M. Sahlén , P. Popesso , P. Norberg , R. McMahon

Theoretical studies of the physical processes guiding the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the X-ray are mainly based on the results of numerical hydrodynamical N-body simulations, which in turn are often directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Mazzotta , E. Rasia , L. Moscardini , G. Tormen

Upcoming and ongoing large area weak lensing surveys will also discover large samples of galaxy clusters. Accurate and precise masses of galaxy clusters are of major importance for cosmology, for example, in establishing well calibrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-24 F. Köhlinger , H. Hoekstra , M. Eriksen

The observed evolution of the galaxy cluster X-ray integral temperature distribution function between $z=0.05$ and $z=0.32$ is used in an attempt to constrain the value of the density parameter, $\Omega_{0}$, for both open and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pedro T P Viana , Andrew R Liddle

We present results on the total mass and temperature determination using two samples of clusters of galaxies. One sample is constructed with emphasis on the completeness of the sample, while the advantage of the other is the use of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 A. Finoguenov , T. H. Reiprich , H. Boehringer

We study the X-ray cluster gas density distribution in hydrostatic equilibrium using the universal temperature profile obtained from recent simulations involving only gravitational processes. If this temperature profile is an indicator of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Suparna Roychowdhury , Biman B. Nath

Characterising galaxy cluster populations from catalog of sources selected in astronomical surveys requires knowledge of sample incompleteness, known as selection function. The first All-Sky Survey (eRASS1) by eROSITA onboard Spectrum…

X-ray temperature measurements of clusters of galaxies are now reaching to redshifts high enough to constrain Omega_0. A redshift-dependent relation that maps these X-ray temperatures to the virial masses of clusters is an essential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Mark Voit , Megan Donahue

Precision cosmology studies based on wide-field surveys of galaxy clusters benefit from constraints on intrinsic scatter in mass-observable relationships. In principle, two-parameter models combining direct measurements of galaxy cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Ventimiglia , G. M. Voit , E. Rasia

The isotropy of the late Universe is an assumption greatly used in astronomy. However, many studies have recently reported deviations from isotropy with a definitive conclusion yet to be made. New, independent methods to robustly test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 K. Migkas , G. Schellenberger , T. H. Reiprich , F. Pacaud , M. E. Ramos-Ceja , L. Lovisari

We present the results of a systematic X-ray analysis of optically rich galaxy clusters detected by the Subaru HSC survey in the eROSITA eFEDS field. Through a joint analysis of SRG/eROSITA and Subaru/HSC surveys, we aim to study the…

We examine the relationship between the mass and x-ray gas temperature of galaxy clusters using data drawn from the literature. Simple theoretical arguments suggest that the mass of a cluster is related to the x-ray temperature as $M…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald J. Horner , Richard F. Mushotzky , Caleb A. Scharf

An atlas of gas temperature maps is presented for a flux limited catalog of galaxy clusters. The sample of clusters is based on the Edge et al. (1990) sample, with the inclusion of five additional clusters, all with fluxes f_X(2-10 keV)>=…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hank Donnelly , C. Jones , W. Forman , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov