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A self-similar spherical collapse model predicts a dark matter (DM) splashback and accretion shock in the outskirts of galaxy clusters while misses a key ingredient of structure formation - processes associated with mergers. To fill this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Congyao Zhang , Irina Zhuravleva , Andrey Kravtsov , Eugene Churazov

We present the splashback radius measurements around the SRG/eROSITA eFEDS X-ray selected galaxy clusters by cross-correlating them with HSC S19A photometric galaxies. The X-ray selection is expected to be less affected by systematics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Sebastian Grandis , Matthias Klein , Esra Bulbul , I-Non Chiu , Satoshi Miyazaki , Neta Bahcall

We present evidence for the existence of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We show that the deprojected cross-correlation of galaxy clusters found in the Planck survey with galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Dominik Zuercher , Surhud More

Recent advances in simulations and observations of galaxy clusters suggest that there exists a physical outer boundary of massive cluster-size dark matter haloes. In this work, we investigate the locations of the outer boundaries of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin T. Lau

The clustering of galaxies and the matter distribution around them can be described using the halo model complemented with a realistic description of the way galaxies populate dark matter haloes. This has been used successfully to describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marcello Cacciato , Edo van Uitert , Henk Hoekstra

The boundaries of dark matter and gas in clusters are delineated by the splashback radius and the accretion shock, respectively. Theoretically, both of these boundaries are expected to coincide at the outskirts of halos. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Siddhant Sen , Susmita Adhikari , Daisuke Nagai , Benedikt Diemer

Cosmological parameters such as $\Omega_{\rm{M}}$ and $\sigma_{8}$ can be measured indirectly using various methods, including galaxy cluster abundance and cosmic shear. These measurements constrain the composite parameter $S_{8}$, leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Roan Haggar , Yuba Amoura , Charlie T. Mpetha , James E. Taylor , Kris Walker , Chris Power

We use weak lensing observations to make the first measurement of the characteristic depletion radius, one of the three radii that characterize the region where matter is being depleted by growing haloes. The lenses are taken from the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Matthew Fong , Jiaxin Han , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hongyu Gao , Jiaqi Wang , Hekun Li , Antonios Katsianis , Pedro Alonso

We study the ellipticity of galaxy cluster halos as characterized by the distribution of cluster galaxies and as measured with weak lensing. We use monte-carlo simulations of elliptical cluster density profiles to estimate and correct for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-12 Tae-hyeon Shin , Joseph Clampitt , Bhuvnesh Jain , Gary Bernstein , Andrew Neil , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2 (MaDCoWS2) is a WISE-selected catalog of galaxy clusters at $0.1<z<2$ covering an effective area of $>6000$ deg$^2$. In this paper, we derive splashback radii for this cluster ensemble from…

The phase space structure of dark matter halos can be used to measure the mass of the halo, infer mass accretion rates, and probe the effects of modified gravity. Previous studies showed that the splashback radius can be measured in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Eduardo Rozo , Rafael Garcia

Density profiles are important tools in galaxy cluster research, offering insights into clusters dynamical states and their relationship with the broader Universe. While these profiles provide valuable information about the matter content…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou

This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes ~130,000 objects between redshift 0.1 and…

We use weak-lensing shear measurements to determine the mean mass of optically selected galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. In a blinded analysis, we split the sample of more than 8,000 redMaPPer clusters into…

In this study, we define the novel splashback depth $\mathcal{D}$ and width $\mathcal{W}$ to examine how the splashback features of dark matter haloes are affected by the physical properties of haloes themselves. We use the largest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Qiaorong S. Yu , Stephanie O'Neil , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Sownak Bose , Boryana Hadzhyska , Lars Hernquist , Rahul Kannan , Monica Wu , Ziang Wu

The center determination of a galaxy cluster from an optical cluster finding algorithm can be offset from theoretical prescriptions or $N$-body definitions of its host halo center. These offsets impact the recovered cluster statistics,…

We perform a measurement of the mass--richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Tom McClintock , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler

Context: Understanding the evolution of the dark matter halos of galaxies after they become part of a cluster is essential for understanding the evolution of these satellite galaxies. Aims: We investigate the potential of galaxy-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Pastor Mira , S. Hilbert , J. Hartlap , P. Schneider

The splashback radius $r_\mathrm{sp}$ has been identified in cosmological $N$-body simulations as an important scale associated with gravitational collapse and the phase-space distribution of recently accreted material. We employ a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan , Alessandra Silvestri