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We use Enzo, a hybrid Eulerian AMR/N-body code including non-gravitational heating and cooling, to explore the morphology of the X-ray gas in clusters of galaxies and its evolution in current generation cosmological simulations. We employ…

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Total mass is arguably the most fundamental property for cosmological studies with galaxy clusters. We investigate the present differences in the mass estimates obtained through independent X-ray, weak-lensing, and dynamical studies. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 L. Lovisari , S. Ettori , M. Sereno , G. Schellenberger , W. R. Forman , F. Andrade-Santos , C. Jones

Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Thomas J. Armitage , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

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

Measurements of the shear induced by weak gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster lines of sight are the gold standard for calibrating cluster observable-mass relations, thereby enabling a robust and precise inference of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 S. Bocquet , A. Fumagalli , C. T. Davies , K. Dolag , S. Grandis , J. J. Mohr

The location of a galaxy cluster's centroid is typically derived from observations of the galactic and/or gas component of the cluster, but these typically deviate from the true centre. This can produce bias when observations are combined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Z. Yan , N. Raza , L. Van Waerbeke , A. J. Mead , I. G. McCarthy , T. Troester , G. Hinshaw

We examine the systematics affecting the X-ray mass estimators applied to a set of five simulated galaxy clusters. They have been processed through the X-ray Map Simulator, X-MAS, to provide Chandra-like long exposures that are analyzed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Rasia , S. Ettori , L. Moscardini , P. Mazzotta , S. Borgani , K. Dolag , G. Tormen , L. M. Cheng , A. Diaferio

State-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have star particles with typical mass between $\sim 10^8$ and $\sim 10^3$ M$_{\odot}$ according to resolution, and treat them as simple stellar populations. On the other hand,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-31 Milena Valentini , Alessandro Bressan , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante , Léo Girardi , Luca Tornatore

We present a consistent analysis of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of an approximately mass-selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at $0.15<z<0.3$ -- the "LoCuSS High-$L_X$ Sample". We apply the same analysis methods to data from both…

We present a new end-to-end pipeline for Mock Observations of X-ray Halos and Analysis (MOXHA) for hydrodynamic simulations of massive halos, and use it to investigate X-ray scaling relations and hydrostatic mass bias in the Simba…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-10 Fred Jennings , Romeel Davé

We present a detailed study of the integrated total hydrostatic mass profiles of the five most massive ($M^{\mathrm{SZ}}_{500} > 5 \times 10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$) galaxy clusters selected at $z\sim1$ via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Iacopo Bartalucci , Monique Arnaud , Gabriel W. Pratt , Amandine M. C. Le Brun

The cosmological parameters prefered by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies predict many more galaxy clusters than those that have been detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. This tension has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 G. Hurier , R. E. Angulo

Galaxy clusters are the endpoints of structure formation and are continuously growing through the merging and accretion of smaller structures. Numerical simulations predict that a fraction of their energy content is not yet thermalized,…

We analyse cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters to study the X-ray scaling relations between total masses and observable quantities such as X-ray luminosity, gas mass, X-ray temperature, and $Y_{X}$. Three sets of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-26 N. Truong , E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , S. Planelles , V. Biffi , D. Fabjan , A. M. Beck , S. Borgani , K. Dolag , M. Gaspari , G. L. Granato , G. Murante , C. Ragone-Figueroa , L. K. Steinborn

The growth of structure in the Universe is tightly correlated with the cosmological parameters. Galaxy clusters as tracers of the large scale structure are the ideal objects to witness this evolution. The X-ray bright, hot gas in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 G. Schellenberger , T. H. Reiprich

[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

Accurate and precise measurements of masses of galaxy clusters are key to derive robust constraints on cosmological parameters. Rising evidence from observations, however, confirms that X-ray masses, obtained under the assumption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 S. Ansarifard , E. Rasia , V. Biffi , S. Borgani , W. Cui , M. De Petris , K. Dolag , S. Ettori , S. M. S. Movahed , G. Murante , G. Yepes

We test the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium in an X-ray luminosity selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at $0.15<z<0.3$ from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). Our weak-lensing measurements of $M_{500}$ control…

We present the reconstruction of hydrostatic mass profiles in 13 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters that have been mapped in their X-ray and SZ signal out to $R_{200}$ for the XMM-Newton Cluster Outskirts Project (X-COP). Using profiles of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 S. Ettori , V. Ghirardini , D. Eckert , E. Pointecouteau , F. Gastaldello , M. Sereno , M. Gaspari , S. Ghizzardi , M. Roncarelli , M. Rossetti

Dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters have long played a role in galaxy cluster studies because it is thought their properties can be reconstructed more precisely and with less systematics. As relaxed clusters are desirable, there exist a…

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