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Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixelized strong lens modeling in galaxy clusters is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Yushan Xie , Huanyuan Shan , Nan Li , Ran Li , Eric Jullo , Chen Su , Xiaoyue Cao , Jean-Paul Kneib , Ana Acebron , Mengfan He , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Jiadong Li , Yin Li

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…

We analyse the spatial clustering properties of the RASS1 Bright Sample, an X-ray flux-limited catalogue of galaxy clusters selected from the southern part of the $ROSAT$ All-Sky Survey. The two-point correlation function $\xi(r)$ of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lauro Moscardini , Sabino Matarrese , Sabrina De Grandi , Francesco Lucchin

[Abridged] We present a comparison between weak-lensing (WL) and X-ray mass estimates of a sample of numerically simulated clusters. The sample consists on the 20 most massive objects at redshift z=0.25 and Mvir > 5 x 10^{14} Msun h^{-1}.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Rasia , M. Meneghetti , R. Martino , S. Borgani , A. Bonafede , K. Dolag , S. Ettori , D. Fabjan , C. Giocoli , P. Mazzotta , J. Merten , M. Radovich , L. Tornatore

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

We present a quantitative study of the X-ray morphology of galaxy clusters, as a function of their detection method and redshift. We analyze two separate samples of galaxy clusters: a sample of 36 clusters at 0.35 < z < 0.9 selected in the…

We present the results of our dynamical state proxy measurements performed on 28 strong lensing galaxy clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey (SGAS). Using Chandra ACIS-I/S X-ray data supplemented with HST WFC3 imaging, we measure four…

We present a detailed study of the morphological features of 22 rich galaxy clusters. Our sample is constructed from a cross-correlation of optical (Abell+APM) data with X-ray (0.1 - 2.4) keV ROSAT pointed observations. We systematically…

One key ingredient in using galaxy clusters (GCs) as a precision cosmological probe in large X-ray surveys is to understand selection effects. The dependence of the X-ray emission on the square of the gas density leads to a predominant role…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Florian Käfer , Alexis Finoguenov , Dominique Eckert , Nicolas Clerc , Miriam E. Ramos-Ceja , Jeremy S. Sanders , Vittorio Ghirardini

Results are presented from the analysis of ROSAT HRI and PSPC observations of the CNOC subsample of the EMSS high redshift galaxy clusters. X-ray surface brightness profiles of 14 clusters with $0.17 < z < 0.55$ are constructed and fit to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aaron D. Lewis , E. Ellingson , Simon L. Morris , R. G. Carlberg

We present a study on the inference of cosmological and astrophysical parameters using stacked galaxy cluster profiles. Utilizing the CAMELS-zoomGZ simulations, we explore how various cluster properties--such as X-ray surface brightness,…

We study the bias and scatter in mass measurements of galaxy clusters resulting from fitting a spherically-symmetric Navarro, Frenk & White model to the reduced tangential shear profile measured in weak lensing observations. The reduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Matthew R. Becker , Andrey V. Kravtsov

If properly calibrated, the shapes of galaxy clusters can be used to investigate many physical processes: from feedback and quenching of star formation, to the nature of dark matter. Theorists frequently measure shapes using moments of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 David Harvey , Andrew Robertson , Sut-Ieng Tam , Mathilde Jauzac , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Ian G. McCarthy

Scaling relations between galaxy cluster properties are crucial for understanding cosmology and baryonic physics. Rigorous calibration of the $M-L_X$ relation, employing weak lensing mass and consistent statistical methodology, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Isabel Pederneiras , Alexis Finoguenov , Eduardo Cypriano , Johan Comparat , Kimmo Kiiveri , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Renato Dupke

One emerging application of machine learning methods is the inference of galaxy cluster masses. In this note, machine learning is used to directly combine five simulated multiwavelength measurements in order to find cluster masses. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. D. Cohn , Nicholas Battaglia

We present a new application of deep learning to reconstruct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the images of microwave sky, and to use these reconstructed maps to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters. We use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 N. Gupta , C. L. Reichardt

Making mock simulated catalogs is an important component of astrophysical data analysis. Selection criteria for observed astronomical objects are often too complicated to be derived from first principles. However the existence of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Amir Hajian , Marcelo Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

We aim at investigating potential biases in lensing and X-ray methods to measure the cluster mass profiles. We do so by performing realistic simulations of lensing and X-ray observations that are subsequently analyzed using observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Meneghetti , E. Rasia , J. Merten , F. Bellagamba , S. Ettori , P. Mazzotta , K. Dolag

This is the first in a series of papers in which we measure accurate weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known at redshifts 0.15<z<0.7, in order to calibrate X-ray and other mass proxies for cosmological…

We present a comprehensive analysis of strong-lensing, weak-lensing shear and magnification data for a sample of 16 X-ray-regular and 4 high-magnification galaxy clusters selected from the CLASH survey. Our analysis combines constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Keiichi Umetsu , Adi Zitrin , Daniel Gruen , Julian Merten , Megan Donahue , Marc Postman