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We investigate the potentiality of using strong lensing clusters to constrain the cosmological parameters Omega_m and Omega_lambda. The existence of a multiple image system with known redshift allows, for a given (Omega_m, Omega_lambda)…

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Clusters of galaxies, the most massive virialized systems known, provide a powerful tool for studying the structure, the mass density, and the cosmology of our universe. Clusters furnish one of the best estimates of the dynamical mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neta A. Bahcall

We propose that observations of super-massive galaxies contain cosmological constraining power similar to conventional cluster cosmology, and we provide promising indications that the associated systematic errors are comparably easier to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Enia Xhakaj , Alexie Leauthaud , Johannes Lange , Elisabeth Krause , Andrew Hearin , Song Huang , Risa H. Wechsler , Sven Heydenreich

The galaxy cluster power spectrum and mass/temperature functions are currently the most precise observational tools for constraining the theory of the formation of large scale structure (LSS) in the Universe. Complementing these tests by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Lukash

The total mass of a galaxy cluster is one of its most fundamental properties. Together with the redshift, the mass links observation and theory, allowing us to use the cluster population to test models of structure formation and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud , A. Biviano , D. Eckert , S. Ettori , D. Nagai , N. Okabe , T. H. Reiprich

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

Studies of galaxy clusters have proved crucial in helping to establish the standard model of cosmology, with a universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. A theoretical basis that describes clusters as massive, multi-component,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Steven W. Allen , August E. Evrard , Adam B. Mantz

As the next generation of large galaxy surveys come online, it is becoming increasingly important to develop and understand the machine learning tools that analyze big astronomical data. Neural networks are powerful and capable of probing…

In this work we show how galaxy clusters can be used to discriminate among different cosmological models. We have used available X-ray & optical cluster data to constrain the cosmological parameters as well as the cluster scaling relations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Diego , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , J. L. Sanz , L. Cayon , J. Silk

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in Universe. They are very important as both cosmological probes and astrophysical laboratories. Several methods have been developed to detect galaxy clusters with different techniques (optical,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-09 Begoña Ascaso

The upcoming XMM Large Scale Structure Survey (XMM-LSS) will ultimately provide a unique mapping of the distribution of X-ray sources in a contiguous 64 sq. deg. region. In particular, it will provide the 3-dimensional location of about 900…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexandre Refregier , Ivan Valtchanov , Marguerite Pierre

This chapter reviews the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to the study of galaxy clusters, covering both theoretical developments and their use as tools to infer cluster properties from a variety of observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Gustavo Yepes , Daniel de Andrés

Scaling relations of galaxy clusters are a powerful probe of cosmic isotropy in the late Universe. Owing to their strong cosmological dependence, galaxy cluster scaling relations can obtain tight constraints on the spatial variation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Konstantinos Migkas

Galaxy clusters are important cosmological probes that have helped to establish the $\mathrm{\Lambda}$CDM paradigm as the standard model of cosmology. However, recent tensions between different types of high-accuracy data highlight the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nikolaos Triantafyllou , Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Paolo Bonfini

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Thomas J. Armitage , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

In this paper we study the applicability of a set of supervised machine learning (ML) models specifically trained to infer observed related properties of the baryonic component (stars and gas) from a set of features of dark matter only…

This lecture is an introduction to cosmological tests with clusters of galaxies. Here I do not intend to provide a complete review of the subject, but rather to describe the basic procedures to set up the fitting machinery to constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Tozzi

We present a machine learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses, trained using both Chandra and eROSITA mock X-ray observations of 2,041 clusters from the Magneticum simulations. We train a random forest regressor, an ensemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 Sheridan B. Green , Michelle Ntampaka , Daisuke Nagai , Lorenzo Lovisari , Klaus Dolag , Dominique Eckert , John A. ZuHone