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Rich and massive clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift are capable of magnifying and distorting the images of background galaxies. A comparison of different mass estimators among these clusters can provide useful information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Xiang-Ping Wu , Tzihong Chiueh , Li-Zhi Fang , Yan-Jie Xue

(Abridged)We present a combined analysis of mass estimates in the central cores of galaxy clusters from the strong lensing, the X-ray measurements and the universal density profile (NFW). Special attention is paid to the questions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiang-Ping Wu

We present a dynamical analysis of galaxy clusters identified in the VIPERS spectroscopic survey within the redshift range 0.5 <= z <= 1.2. Cluster candidates were first detected as overdense regions in redshift space through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mohamed H. Abdullah , Omnia I. Adly , Gillian Wilson , Magdy Y. Amin , A. Ahmed

This paper demonstrates that the stellar masses of galaxies in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, originally derived via stellar population synthesis modelling, can be accurately predicted using only their absolute magnitudes and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 E. Elson

We summarize the method of mass modelling of galaxy clusters based on reproducing the dispersion and kurtosis of the projected velocity distribution of galaxies. The models are parametrized within the framework of the NFW density profile,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-17 Ewa L. Lokas , Radoslaw Wojtak , Gary A. Mamon , Stefan Gottloeber

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

We report first results from the ``Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters'' (SMAC) project, an all-sky Fundamental Plane survey of 699 early-type galaxies in 56 clusters between ~3000 km/s and ~14000 km/s. For this sample, with a median…

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe and key probes of cosmic evolution. The large data volume expected from upcoming surveys requires efficient automated analysis methods for tens of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 M. Fogliardi , M. Meneghetti , C. Giocoli , L. Moscardini , P. Rosati , L. Leuzzi , G. Angora , L. Bazzanini , C. Spinelli

We present a Bayesian inference approach to estimating the cumulative mass profile and mean squared velocity profile of a globular cluster given the spatial and kinematic information of its stars. Mock globular clusters with a range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 Gwendolyn M. Eadie , Jeremy J. Webb , Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

The dynamical evolution of the globular cluster systems in galaxies is predicted, based on the standard dynamical theory normalized to the example of the Milky Way. The major processes varying with the galactocentric distance are the tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Oleg Y. Gnedin

In this paper we report the results of simulations of a 2D gravity driven, dissipative granular flow through a hopper system. Measurements of impulse distributions P(I) on the simulated system show flow-velocity-invariant behavior of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ferguson , B. Fisher , B. Chakraborty

Estimating properties of star clusters from unresolved broadband photometry is a challenging problem that is classically tackled by spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting methods that are based on simple stellar population models.…

Using a set of 73 numerically simulated galaxy clusters, we have characterised the statistical and physical biases for three velocity dispersion and mass estimators, namely biweight, gapper and standard deviation, in the small number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Antonio Ferragamo , José Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Emiliano Munari , Barbara Sartoris , Rafael Barrena

Numerous methods for finding clusters at moderate to high redshifts have been proposed in recent years, at wavelengths ranging from radio to X-rays. In this paper we describe a new method for detecting clusters in two-band optical/near-IR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee

We present a new application of deep learning to infer the masses of galaxy clusters directly from images of the microwave sky. Effectively, this is a novel approach to determining the scaling relation between a cluster's Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-16 Nikhel Gupta , Christian L. Reichardt

This paper is the first in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our primary aim is to test the…

We present Classification of Cluster GAlaxy MEmbers (C$^2$-GaMe), a classification algorithm based on a suite of machine learning models that differentiates galaxies into orbiting, infalling, and background (interloper) populations, using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Daniel Farid , Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Arya Farahi , Eduardo Rozo

This article is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our aim is to quantify the…

We present analysis of bulk and random gas motions in the intracluster medium using high-resolution Eulerian cosmological simulations of sixteen simulated clusters, including both very relaxed and unrelaxed systems and spanning a virial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Erwin T. Lau , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Daisuke Nagai

We develop and implement a model to analyze the internal kinematics of galaxy clusters that may contain subpopulations of galaxies that do not independently trace the cluster potential. The model allows for substructures within the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Evan Tucker , Matthew G. Walker , Mario Mateo , Edward W. Olszewski , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Christopher J. Miller
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