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We present the direct detection of the splashback feature using the sample of massive galaxy clusters from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). This feature is clearly detected (above $5\sigma$) in the stacked luminosity density…

We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. Shin , B. Jain , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , S. Pandey , A. Salcedo , D. H. Weinberg , A. Amsellem , N. Battaglia , M. Belyakov , T. Dacunha , S. Goldstein , A. V. Kravtsov , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , M. J. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , P. A. Gallardo , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , M. Hilton , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , B. J. Koopman , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. Lokken , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. McCullough , J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , J. Myles , F. Nati , A. Navarro-Alsina , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page , A. Palmese , B. Partridge , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Salatino , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , A. Schillaci , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , C. Sifón , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , S. T. Staggs , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. Weller , E. J. Wollack , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang

A crucial question in galaxy formation is what role new accretion has in star formation. Theoretical models have predicted a wide range of correlation strengths between halo accretion and galaxy star formation. Previously, we presented a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Christine O'Donnell , Peter Behroozi , Surhud More

We present measurements of the radial profile of mass and galaxy number density around X-ray selected ROSAT All Sky Survey-Multi-Component Matched Filter galaxy clusters using Year 3 data from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Jitendra Joshi , Divya Rana , Surhud More , Matthias Klein

We present the observational evidence of the 2-halo term in the stacked shear profile of a sample of about 1200 optically selected galaxy clusters based on imaging data and the public shear catalog from the CFHTLenS. We find that the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Giovanni Covone , Mauro Sereno , Martin Kilbinger , Vincenzo F. Cardone

We are interested in investigating the growth of structures at the nonlinear scales of galaxy clusters from an observational perspective: we explore the possibility of measuring the mass accretion rate of galaxy clusters from their mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 Cristiano De Boni

The physically motivated definition of galaxy size proposed recently, linked to the farther location of the in situ star formation, considerably reduces the scatter of the galaxy mass-size relation and provides a viable method to infer the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Ignacio Trujillo

We present an analysis of the splashback radius ($R_{\text{sp}}$) and the associated splashback mass ($M_{\text{sp}}$) for a sample of galaxy clusters using SDSS spectroscopic data and mock simulations. $R_{\text{sp}}$ marks a physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Lucas Gabriel-Silva , Laerte Sodré

The splashback radius marks the physical boundary of galaxy clusters, separating orbiting from infalling material, and provides a halo definition free from pseudo-evolution. In this work, we present a fully photometric framework to measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lucas Gabriel-Silva , Laerte Sodré

A self-similar spherical collapse model predicts a dark matter (DM) splashback and accretion shock in the outskirts of galaxy clusters while misses a key ingredient of structure formation - processes associated with mergers. To fill this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Congyao Zhang , Irina Zhuravleva , Andrey Kravtsov , Eugene Churazov

By means of high-resolution N-body simulations in a LambdaCDM cosmology, we verify that scaling relations similar to those observed for nearby galaxy clusters are also defined by their dark matter hosts; the slopes, however, are not the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Lanzoni , L. Ciotti , A. Cappi , G. Tormen , G. Zamorani

All galaxies are thought to reside within large halos of dark matter, whose properties can only be determined from indirect observations. The formation and assembly of galaxies is determined from the interplay between these dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lee R. Spitler , Duncan A. Forbes

A standard paradigm is now available for the recent evolution (z < 10) of structure on galactic and larger scales. Most of the matter is assumed to be dark and dissipationless and to cluster hierarchically from gaussian initial conditions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon D. M. White

Properties of galaxies vary systematically with the mass of their parent dark matter halos. This basic galaxy - halo connection shows a fair amount of scatter whose origin is not fully understood. Here, we study how differences in the halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-29 Robert Feldmann , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , Dušan Kereš

We examine the outskirts of galaxy clusters in the C-EAGLE simulations to quantify the `edges' of the stellar and dark matter distribution. The radius of the steepest slope in the dark matter, commonly used as a proxy for the splashback…

We investigate the splashback features of dark-matter halos based on cosmic density and velocity fields. Besides the density correlation function binned by the halo orientation angle which was used in the literature, we introduce, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-23 Teppei Okumura , Takahiro Nishimichi , Keiichi Umetsu , Ken Osato

We investigate a splashback-like feature in the outer region of central galaxies (CGs) in clusters. This feature is detected as a "dip" in the radial slope of the CG surface brightness, derived through the stacking of Dark Energy Survey…

We calculate by means of the Press-Schechter formalism the density profile developed by dark-matter halos during accretion, i.e., the continuous aggregation of small clumps. We find that the shape of the predicted profile is similar to that…

Galaxy group masses are important to relate these systems with the dark matter halo hosts. However, deriving accurate mass estimates is particularly challenging for low-mass galaxy groups. Moreover, calibration of bservational mass-proxies…

High resolution cosmological N-body simulations show that the density profiles of dark matter halos in hierarchical cosmogonies are universal, with low mass halos typically denser than more massive ones. This mass-density correlation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Salvador-Sole , A. Manrique , J. M. Solanes