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A tight mass-temperature relation, M(r)/r ~ T_X, is expected in most cosmological models if clusters of galaxies are homologous and the intracluster gas is in global equilibrium with the dark matter. We here calibrate this relation using 8…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jens Hjorth , Jamila Oukbir , Eelco van Kampen

We examine the relationship between the mass and x-ray gas temperature of galaxy clusters using data drawn from the literature. Simple theoretical arguments suggest that the mass of a cluster is related to the x-ray temperature as $M…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald J. Horner , Richard F. Mushotzky , Caleb A. Scharf

Models of galaxy formation should be able to predict the properties of clusters of galaxies, in particular their gas fractions, metallicities, X-ray luminosity-temperature relation, temperature function and mass-deposition-rate function.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. K. S. Wu , A. C. Fabian , P. E. J. Nulsen

Precision cosmology studies based on wide-field surveys of galaxy clusters benefit from constraints on intrinsic scatter in mass-observable relationships. In principle, two-parameter models combining direct measurements of galaxy cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Ventimiglia , G. M. Voit , E. Rasia

We present the first measurement of the mass function of galaxy clusters based directly on cluster masses derived from observations of weak gravitational lensing. To investigate the degree of sample incompleteness resulting from the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-06 H. Dahle

We use a new spherical accretion recipe tested on N-body simulations to measure the observed mass accretion rate (MAR) of 129 clusters in the Cluster Infall Regions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CIRS) and in the Hectospec Cluster Survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 M. Pizzardo , S. Di Gioia , A. Diaferio , C. De Boni , A. L. Serra , M. J. Geller , J. Sohn , K. Rines , M. Baldi

Galaxy clusters, the most massive, dark-matter-dominated, and most recently assembled structures in the Universe, are key tools for probing cosmology. However, uncertainties in scaling relations that connect cluster mass to observables like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Giulia Cerini , Elena Bellomi , Nico Cappelluti , Sabina Khizroev , Erwin T. Lau , Priyamvada Natarajan , John ZuHone

We demonstrate the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to mitigate systematics in the virial scaling relation and produce dynamical mass estimates of galaxy clusters with remarkably low bias and scatter. We present two models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Matthew Ho , Markus Michael Rau , Michelle Ntampaka , Arya Farahi , Hy Trac , Barnabas Poczos

The environment plays a critical role in galaxy evolution, with galaxy clusters and their infall regions offering diverse conditions that shape galaxies before they enter the dense cluster core, a process known as ``pre-processing''.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Rhys Jordan , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Steven P. Bamford , Frazer R. Pearce , Roan Haggar

We evaluate the effectiveness of deep learning (DL) models for reconstructing the masses of galaxy clusters using X-ray photometry data from next-generation surveys. We establish these constraints using a catalogue of realistic mock eROSITA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Matthew Ho , John Soltis , Arya Farahi , Daisuke Nagai , August Evrard , Michelle Ntampaka

We use very large cosmological N--body simulations to obtain accurate predictions for the two-point correlations and power spectra of mass-limited samples of galaxy clusters. We consider two currently popular cold dark matter (CDM)…

We present the clustering of galaxy clusters as a useful addition to the common set of cosmological observables. The clustering of clusters probes the large-scale structure of the Universe, extending galaxy clustering analysis to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Annalisa Mana , Tommaso Giannantonio , Jochen Weller , Ben Hoyle , Gert Huetsi , Barbara Sartoris

Despite consistent progress in numerical simulations, the observable properties of galaxy clusters are difficult to predict ab initio. It is therefore important to compare both theoretical and observational results to a direct measure of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Henk Hoekstra , Matthias Bartelmann , Haakon Dahle , Holger Israel , Marceau Limousin , Massimo Meneghetti

We explore the possibility of using the external regions of galaxy clusters to measure their mass accretion rate (MAR). The main goal is to provide a method to observationally investigate the growth of structures on the nonlinear scales of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cristiano De Boni

We introduce a novel technique for constraining cosmological parameters and galaxy assembly bias using non-linear redshift-space clustering of galaxies. We scale cosmological N-body simulations and insert galaxies with the SubHalo Abundance…

This article is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our aim is to quantify the…

The surface mass density of a cluster of galaxies, and thus its total mass, can be estimated from its lens magnification. The magnification can be determined from the variation in number counts of its background galaxies. In the weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eelco van Kampen

The formation of star clusters involves the growth of smaller, gas-rich subclusters through accretion of gas from the giant molecular cloud within which the subclusters are embedded. The two main accretion mechanisms responsible for this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Jeremy Karam , Alison Sills

As the quality of the available galaxy cluster data improves, the models fitted to these data might be expected to become increasingly complex. Here we present the Bayesian approach to the problem of cluster data modelling: starting from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson , A. Slosar

We investigate the impact of mergers on the mass estimation of galaxy clusters using $N$-body + hydrodynamical simulation data. We estimate virial mass from these data and compare it with real mass. When the smaller subcluster's mass is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Motokazu Takizawa , Ryo Nagino , Kyoko Matsushita