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Galaxy cluster masses estimated from parametric modeling of weak lensing shear observations are known to be biased by inaccuracies in observationally determined centers. It has recently been shown that such systematic effects can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Martin W. Sommer , Tim Schrabback , Sebastian Grandis

In this work, we examine the effects of mergers on the hydrostatic mass estimate of galaxy clusters using high-resolution Eulerian cosmological simulations. We utilize merger trees to isolate the last merger for each cluster in our sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Kaylea Nelson , Douglas H. Rudd , Laurie Shaw , Daisuke Nagai

The mass derived from gravitational lensing reflects the total mass contained in the lensing system, independent of the specific matter contents and states. A comparison of the dynamical masses from hydrostatic equilibrium with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiang-Ping Wu

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

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates. Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak

Non-thermal pressure in galaxy clusters leads to underestimation of the mass of galaxy clusters based on hydrostatic equilibrium with thermal gas pressure. This occurs even for dynamically relaxed clusters that are used for calibrating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Xun Shi , Eiichiro Komatsu , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin T. Lau

Surveys in the next decade will deliver large samples of galaxy clusters that transform our understanding of their formation. Cluster astrophysics and cosmology studies will become systematics limited with samples of this magnitude. With…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 David J. Barnes , Mark Vogelsberger , Francesca A. Pearce , Ana-Roxana Pop , Rahul Kannan , Kaili Cao , Scott T. Kay , Lars Hernquist

Motivated by previous studies in literature about the potential importance of relativistic corrections to galaxy cluster hydrostatic masses, we calculate the masses of 12 relaxed clusters (with Chandra X-ray data) using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sajal Gupta , Shantanu Desai

The mass of galaxy clusters (GCs) can be determined by calculating the hydrostatic equilibrium equation. In this work, we derive the hydrostatic mass of GCs within Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) theory, beyond Horndeski gravity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Feri Apryandi , M. Lawrence Pattersons

We examine the validity of the hydrostatic equilibrium (HSE) assumption for galaxy clusters using one of the highest-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We define and evaluate several effective mass terms corresponding to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Daichi Suto , Hajime Kawahara , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto , Renyue Cen

[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

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

While galaxy cluster masses are fundamental cosmological observables, estimates based on intra-cluster medium observations rely on hydrostatic equilibrium, introducing a systematic bias. We investigate how mergers drive the time evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Isac Barranco-Llorca , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

We present the mass-X-ray observable scaling relationships for clusters of galaxies using the XMM-Newton cluster catalog of Snowden et al. Our results are roughly consistent with previous observational and theoretical work, with one major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Adrienne M. Juett , David S. Davis , Richard Mushotzky

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

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

Context. Biases in mass measurements of galaxy clusters are one of the major limiting systematics in constraining cosmology with clusters. Aims. We aim to demonstrate that the systematics associated with cluster gravitational potentials are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. Tchernin , E. T. Lau , S. Stapelberg , D. Hug , M. Bartelmann

The exploitation of clusters of galaxies as cosmological probes relies on accurate measurements of their total gravitating mass. X-ray observations provide a powerful means of probing the total mass distribution in galaxy clusters, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rocco Piffaretti , Riccardo Valdarnini

There is a long-standing discrepancy between galaxy cluster masses determined from X-ray and gravitational lensing observations of which Abell 1689 is a well-studied example. In this work we take advantage of 180 ks of Chandra X-ray…

Clusters of galaxies are useful tools to constrain cosmological parameters, only if their masses can be correctly inferred from observations. In particular, X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect observations can be used to derive masses…