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We present a detection of the splashback feature around galaxy clusters selected using their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal. Recent measurements of the splashback feature around optically selected galaxy clusters have found that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 T. Shin , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , B. Jain , N. Battaglia , L. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. DeRose , D. Gruen , M. Hilton , A. Kravtsov , T. McClintock , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , H. Wu , S. Aiola , S. Allam , K. Bechtol , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , J. R. Bond , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , S. K. Choi , C. E. Cunha , T. M. Crawford , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , M. J. Devlin , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , J. Dunkley , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , P. A. Gallardo , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , M. Gralla , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , S. P. Ho , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , A. G. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , L. Maurin , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , S. Naess , F. Nati , L. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page B. Partridge , S. Patil , A. A. Plazas , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , S. Serrano , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , S. T. Staggs , A. Stark , G. Stein , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. van Engelen , E. J. Wollack , Z. Xu , Z. Zhang

The parameter $\sigma_8$ is the rms mass fluctuations on a scale of $R_8=8h^{-1}$ Mpc and is used to quantify the amplitude of matter fluctuations at linear scales. However, the dependence of $R_8$ on $h$ complicates direct comparisons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Matteo Forconi , Arianna Favale , Adrià Gómez-Valent

The abundance of galaxy clusters is in principle a powerful tool to constrain cosmological parameters, especially $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$ and $\sigma_8$, due to the exponential dependence in the high-mass regime. While the best observables are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 Christian Angrick , Francesco Pace , Matthias Bartelmann , Mauro Roncarelli

We place constraints on the average density (Omega_m) and clustering amplitude (sigma_8) of matter using a combination of two measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the galaxy two-point correlation function, w_p, and the…

Forthcoming large galaxy cluster surveys will yield tight constraints on cosmological models. It has been shown that in an idealized survey, containing > 10,000 clusters, statistical errors on dark energy and other cosmological parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joshua D. Younger , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan , Sheng Wang

We present evidence for the existence of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We show that the deprojected cross-correlation of galaxy clusters found in the Planck survey with galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Dominik Zuercher , Surhud More

Galaxy clusters have their unique advantages for cosmology. Here we collect a new sample of 10 lensing galaxy clusters with X-ray observations to constrain cosmological parameters.The redshifts of lensing clusters lie between 0.1 and 0.6,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Heng Yu , Zong-Hong Zhu

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 examine the splashback structure of galaxy clusters using hydrodynamical simulations from the GIZMO run of The Three Hundred Project, focusing on the relationship between the stellar and dark matter components. We dynamically decompose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Kris Walker , Aaron Ludlow , Chris Power , Alexander Knebe , Weiguang Cui

Large SZ selected galaxy cluster surveys are beginning imminently. We compare the dependence of the galaxy cluster angular power spectrum on cosmological parameters, different modeling assumptions and statistical observational errors. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Cohn , Kenji Kadota

We present constraints on the values of $\Omega_m$, $n$, $\sigma_8$, obtained from measurements of the X-ray luminosity function of galaxy clusters as compiled in EMSS, RDCS and BCS galaxy cluster samples. The values obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Del Popolo

Magnification bias, an observational effect of gravitational lensing in the weak regime, allows testing the cosmological model through angular correlations of sources at different redshifts. This effect has been observed in various…

Splashback refers to the process of matter that is accreting onto a dark matter halo reaching its first orbital apocenter and turning around in its orbit. The cluster-centric radius at which this process occurs, r_sp, defines a halo…

The boundaries of cold dark matter halos are commonly defined to enclose a density contrast $\Delta$ relative to a reference (mean or critical) density. We argue that a more physical boundary of halos is the radius at which accreted matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Surhud More , Benedikt Diemer , Andrey Kravtsov

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 boundaries of dark matter and gas in clusters are delineated by the splashback radius and the accretion shock, respectively. Theoretically, both of these boundaries are expected to coincide at the outskirts of halos. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Siddhant Sen , Susmita Adhikari , Daisuke Nagai , Benedikt Diemer

Recent advances in simulations and observations of galaxy clusters suggest that there exists a physical outer boundary of massive cluster-size dark matter haloes. In this work, we investigate the locations of the outer boundaries of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin T. Lau

(abridged) We use a theoretical model to predict the clustering properties of galaxy clusters. Our technique accounts for past light-cone effects on the observed clustering and follows the non-linear evolution of the dark matter correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lauro Moscardini , Sabino Matarrese , H. J. Mo

In classical cosmological analysis of large scale structure surveys with 2-pt functions, the parameter measurement precision is limited by several key degeneracies within the cosmology and astrophysics sectors. For cosmic shear, clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 Tomasz Kacprzak , Janis Fluri

We present cosmological parameter constraints from the SFI++ galaxy peculiar velocity survey, the largest galaxy peculiar velocity sample to date. The analysis is performed by using the gridding method developed in Abate et al. (2008). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexandra Abate , Pirin Erdogdu