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Expanding from previous work we present weak lensing measurements for a total sample of 30 distant ($z_\mathrm{median}=0.93$) massive galaxy clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) Survey, measuring galaxy shapes…

Compact sources can cause scatter in the scaling relationships between the amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (tSZE) in galaxy clusters and cluster mass. Estimates of the importance of this scatter vary - largely due to…

Using the NIKA2 dual band millimeter camera installed on the IRAM30m telescope, we have mapped a relatively large field (~70 arcmin^2) in the direction of the star GJ526 to investigate the nature of the sources found with the MAMBO camera…

We present a new, objectively defined catalog of candidate galaxy clusters based on the galaxy catalogs from the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). This cluster catalog, derived from the best calibrated plates in the…

Distinctive large-scale structures have been identified in the spatial distribution of optical galaxies up to redshift z ~ 1. In the more distant universe, the relationship between the dust-obscured population of star-forming galaxies…

Galaxy cluster abundance provides a powerful probe of the $\Lambda$CDM model and enables precise constraints on cosmological parameters. Millimeter-wavelength surveys detect clusters through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, and are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Harshda Saxena , Adam B. Mantz , Jack Sayers , Denise G. Yudovich , Steve W. Allen

Using both halo model calculations and a large sample of simulated SZ maps, we demonstrate that high-mass clusters add significant non-Gaussian variance to measurements of the SZ power spectrum amplitude. The difficulty in correctly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 L. D. Shaw , O. Zahn , G. P. Holder , O. Doré

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

Studying galaxy clusters through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background has many important advantages. The total SZ signal is an accurate and precise tracer of the total pressure in the intra-cluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Keith Grainge , Stefano Borgani , Sergio Colafrancesco , Chiara Ferrari , Anna Scaife , Paolo Marchegiani , S. Emritte , J. Weller

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For $39$ massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effect (SZE) with the APEX telescope, we analyse deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Matthias Klein , Holger Israel , Aarti Nagarajan , Frank Bertoldi , Florian Pacaud , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

We derive cosmological constraints using a galaxy cluster sample selected from the 2500~deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey. The sample spans the redshift range $0.25< z<1.75$ and contains 343 clusters with SZ detection significance $\xi>5$. The sample…

We critically analyze the measurement of galaxy cluster gas masses, which is central to cosmological studies that rely on the galaxy cluster gas mass fraction. Using synthetic observations of numerically simulated clusters viewed through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric J. Hallman , Patrick M. Motl , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman

CONTEXT.Large field-of-view imaging/polarimetry instruments operating at millimeter and submm wavelengths are fundamental tools to understand the role of magnetic fields (MF) in channeling filament material into prestellar cores providing a…

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We report on newly identified galaxy clusters from the high signal-to-noise ($>5$-$\sigma$) end of the second all-sky \textit{Planck} Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) catalog (PSZ2). The clusters are identified in deep, optical imaging from the Kitt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Steven Boada , John P. Hughes , Felipe Menanteau , Peter Doze , L. Felipe Barrientos , L. Infante

The pressure of hot gas in groups and clusters of galaxies is a key physical quantity, which is directly linked to the total mass of the halo and several other thermodynamical properties. In the wake of previous observational works on the…

The recently approved COBRAS/SAMBA cosmic microwave background mission will also have a major impact on measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. The frequency of three of the channels (150 GHz, 217 GHz, 353 GHz) are chosen to optimize…

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Galaxy clusters can be used as powerful cosmological probes, provided one can obtain accurate mass estimates, which requires a precise knowledge of the underlying astrophysics of galaxy clusters. For these purposes, spatially resolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 R. Wicker , M. De Petris , A. Ferragamo , I. Bartalucci , G. Yepes , E. Rasia , R. Adam , W. Cui , F. Mayet , L. Perotto , M. Muñoz-Echeverría

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider