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The use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes often relies on understanding the properties and evolution of the intracluster medium (ICM). However, the ICM is a complex plasma, regularly stirred by mergers and feedback, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Jake S. Bennett , Debora Sijacki

The main goal of this work is to compare the results of three dynamical mass estimators to the X-ray hydrostatic values, focussing on massive galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts $z\sim0.3$. We estimated dynamical masses with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 G. Foëx , H. Böhringer , G. Chon

With the advent of wide-field cosmological surveys, we are approaching samples of hundreds of thousands of galaxy clusters. While such large numbers will help reduce statistical uncertainties, the control of systematics in cluster masses…

The detailed characterization of scaling laws relating the observables of cluster of galaxies to their mass is crucial for obtaining accurate cosmological constraints with clusters. In this paper, we present a comparison between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 A. Ferragamo , J. F. Macías-Pérez , V. Pelgrims , F. Ruppin , M. De Petris , F. Mayet , M. Muñoz-Echeverría , L. Perotto , E. Pointecouteau

When measuring the observed pressure, density or temperature profiles of the intracluster gas, and hence the mass of clusters of galaxies, projection effects or departures from the spherical symmetry hypothesis may induce biases. In order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-08 Théo Lebeau , Jenny G. Sorce , Nabila Aghanim , Elena Hernández-Martínez , Klaus Dolag

Galaxy clusters offer powerful insights into the large-scale structure of the Universe and the physics of baryons in hot state. Their scientific exploitation, however, hinges on our ability to accurately measure key thermodynamic…

We use gas-dynamical simulations of galaxy clusters to compare their X-ray and strong lensing properties. Special emphasis is laid on mass estimates. The cluster masses range between 6 x 10^14 solar masses and 4 x 10^15 solar masses, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Bartelmann , Matthias Steinmetz

The mass of galaxy clusters can be inferred from the temperature of their X-ray emitting gas, $T_{\mathrm{X}}$. Their masses may be underestimated if it is assumed that the gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium, by an amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Holger Israel , Gerrit Schellenberger , Jukka Nevalainen , Richard Massey , Thomas Reiprich

We present the MAssive ClusterS and Intercluster Structures (MACSIS) project, a suite of 390 clusters simulated with baryonic physics that yields realistic massive galaxy clusters capable of matching a wide range of observed properties.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 David J. Barnes , Scott T. Kay , Monique A. Henson , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye , Adrian Jenkins

Context. The clustering of dark-matter halos depends primarily on halo mass. However, at fixed halo mass, numerical simulations have revealed multiple secondary dependencies. This so-called secondary halo bias has important implications for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Yigon Kim , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Rory Smith , Jong-Ho Shinn

Recent hydrostatic X-ray studies of the hot interstellar medium (ISM) in early-type galaxies underestimate the gravitating mass as compared to stellar dynamics, implying modest, but significant deviations from exact hydrostatic equilibrium.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philip J. Humphrey , David A. Buote , Fabrizio Brighenti , Karl Gebhardt , William G. Mathews

The scaling between X-ray observables and mass for galaxy clusters and groups is instrumental for cluster based cosmology and an important probe for the thermodynamics of the intracluster gas. We calibrate a scaling relation between the…

Self-consistently modeling baryonic effects in survey-scale cosmological simulations has become increasingly important as the diversity, precision, and statistical reach of modern observations continue to improve. The advent of exascale…

We present results on the X-ray properties of clusters and groups of galaxies, extracted from a large hydrodynamical simulation. We used the GADGET code to simulate a LambdaCDM model within a box of 192 Mpc/h on a side, with 480^3 dark…

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

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

In the self-similar scenario for galaxy cluster formation and evolution, the thermodynamic properties of the X-ray emitting plasma can be predicted in their dependencies on the halo mass and redshift only. However, several departures from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 S. Ettori , L. Lovisari , D. Eckert

Aims. We study the possibility that the gas in cool-core clusters of galaxies has non-negligible rotation support, the impact of gas rotation on mass estimates from current X-ray observations, and the ability of forthcoming X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-06 Tommaso Bartalesi , Stefano Ettori , Carlo Nipoti

The Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS, Smith et al.) is a systematic multi-wavelength survey of >100 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters (0.14<z<0.3) selected from the ROSAT all sky survey. We used data on 37 LoCuSS clusters from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Y. Zhang , A. Finoguenov , H. Boehringer , J. -P. Kneib , G. P. Smith , R. Kneissl , N. Okabe , H. Dahle

The TNG300-1 run of the IllustrisTNG simulations includes 1697 clusters of galaxies with $M_{200c}>10^{14}$M$_\odot$ covering the redshift range $0.01-1.04$. We build mock spectroscopic redshift catalogues of simulated galaxies within these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Michele Pizzardo , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon , Ivana Damjanov , Antonaldo Diaferio