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Weak gravitational lensing observations of galaxy clusters are sensitive to all mass along the line-of-sight, introducing systematic and additional statistical uncertainties due to intervening structures. We quantify their impact on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Felix Vecchi , David Harvey , James Nightingale , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Ethan Tregidga

I report the current status on the determinations of the baryon fractions and dynamical/lensing masses of galaxy clusters as well as the $\sigma$ - $T$ relationship, making use of all the published data in literature which include 304…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang-Ping Wu

Clusters of galaxies are excellent locations to probe the distribution of baryons and dark matter (DM) over a wide range of scales. We study a sample of seven massive, relaxed galaxy clusters with centrally-located brightest cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrew B. Newman , Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis , David J. Sand , Carlo Nipoti , Johan Richard , Eric Jullo

We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

We present a stacked weak-lensing analysis of an approximately mass-selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at 0.15<z<0.3, based on observations with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. We develop a new method for selecting lensed background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Nobuhiro Okabe , Graham P. Smith , Keiichi Umetsu , Masahiro Takada , Toshifumi Futamase

This is the first in a series of papers in which we measure accurate weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known at redshifts 0.15<z<0.7, in order to calibrate X-ray and other mass proxies for cosmological…

Measurements of the sparsity of galaxy clusters can be used to probe the cosmological information encoded in the host dark matter halo profile, and infer constraints on the cosmological model parameters. Key to the success of these analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 P. S. Corasaniti , T. R. G. Richardson , S. Ettori , M. De Petris , E. Rasia , W. Cui , G. Yepes , G. Gianfagna , A. M. C. Le Bun , Y. Rasera

High-resolution N-body simulations are used to investigate systematic trends in the mass profiles and total masses of clusters as derived from 3 simple estimators: (1) the weak gravitational lensing shear field under the assumption of an…

Weak gravitational lensing has become an important method to determine the masses of galaxy clusters. The intrinsic shapes of the galaxies are a dominant source of uncertainty, but there are other limitations to the precision that can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Henk Hoekstra , Jan Hartlap , Stefan Hilbert , Edo van Uitert

We present a survey of mass profiles and mass-to-light ratios of eight typical galaxy clusters at a common redshift (z ~ 0.2). We use weak gravitational lensing as a probe because it is unique in avoiding any assumptions about the dynamical…

Gravitational lensing has now become a popular tool to measure the mass distribution of structures in the Universe on various scales. Here we focus on the study of galaxy's scale dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Limousin , J-P. Kneib , P. Natarajan

Strong gravitational lensing observations can test structure formation models by constraining the masses and concentrations of subhaloes in massive galaxy clusters. Recent work has concluded that cluster subhaloes are more abundant and/or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Yannick M. Bahé

We use the "Evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments" (EAGLE) cosmological simulation to investigate the effect of baryons on the density profiles of rich galaxy clusters. We focus on EAGLE clusters with…

Weak gravitational lensing provides a direct way to study the mass distribution of clusters of galaxies at large radii. Unfortunately, large scale structure along the line of sight also contributes to the lensing signal, and consequently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the effect of screened modified gravity models on the mass estimates of galaxy clusters. In particular, we focus on two novel aspects: (i) we study modified gravity models in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Max Gronke , A. Hammami , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

Galaxy clusters are considered as excellent probes for cosmology. For that purpose, their mass needs to be measured and their structural properties needs to be understood. We propose a method for galaxy cluster mass reconstruction which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-19 Xinzhong Er , Guoliang Li , Peter Schneider

Traditionally, galaxy clusters have been expected to retain all the material accreted since their formation epoch. For this reason, their matter content should be representative of the Universe as a whole, and thus their baryon fraction…

We study the effect of baryons on the abundance of structures and substructures in a Lambda-CDM cosmology, using a pair of high resolution cosmological simulations from the GIMIC project. Both simulations use identical initial conditions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-25 Till Sawala , Carlos S. Frenk , Robert A. Crain , Adrian Jenkins , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns , Jesus Zavala

We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements. We model a wide range of scales, roughly from…

Next-generation optical imaging surveys will revolutionise the observations of weak gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters and provide stringent constraints on growth of structure and cosmic acceleration. In these experiments, accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-17 Hao-Yi Wu , David H. Weinberg , Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking , Ying Zu