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[Abridged] Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally-bound systems in the universe and are widely considered to be an effective cosmological probe. We propose the first Machine Learning method using galaxy cluster properties to…

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

Stage-IV surveys will enable unprecedented tests of gravity on cosmological scales. However, assuming General Relativity in the analysis of large-scale structure could introduce systematic biases if gravity deviates from GR at these scales.…

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Extended Theories of Gravity with additional scalar degrees of freedom have recently acquired increasing interest due to the presence of a screening mechanism that allows suppressing at small scales (e.g., the Solar System scale) every…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Enrico Laudato , Vincenzo Salzano , Keiichi Umetsu

We propose a new framework for testing gravity using cluster observations, which aims to provide an unbiased constraint on modified gravity models from Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray cluster counts and the cluster gas fraction, among…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-10 Myles A. Mitchell , Jian-hua He , Christian Arnold , Baojiu Li

Galaxy clusters are the endpoints of structure formation and are continuously growing through the merging and accretion of smaller structures. Numerical simulations predict that a fraction of their energy content is not yet thermalized,…

Modifications of general relativity provide an alternative explanation to dark energy for the observed acceleration of the universe. We review recent developments in modified gravity theories, focusing on higher dimensional approaches and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bhuvnesh Jain , Justin Khoury

We explore the possibility of testing modified gravity exhibiting the Vainshtein mechanism against observations of cluster lensing. We work in the most general scalar-tensor theory with second-order field equations (Horndeski's theory), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 Tatsuya Narikawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Daisuke Yamauchi , Ryo Saito

Gravitational flexion has recently been introduced as a technique by which one can map out and study substructure in clusters of galaxies. Previous analyses involving flexion have measured the individual galaxy-galaxy flexion signal, or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adrienne Leonard , Lindsay J. King , Stephen M. Wilkins

A set of 66 3D hydrodynamical simulations explores how galactic stellar mass affects three-phase, starburst-driven outflows. Simulated velocities are compared to two basic analytic models: with (Johnson \& Axford 1971) and without…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Ryan Tanner

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…

CMB lensing is a promising, novel way to measure galaxy cluster masses that can be used, e.g., for mass calibration in galaxy cluster counts analyses. Understanding the statistics of the galaxy cluster mass observable obtained with such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Íñigo Zubeldia , Anthony Challinor

We present an analysis of observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of six galaxy clusters in a redshift range of 0.16--0.41. The cluster gas is modelled using the…

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…

The masses of galaxy clusters can be measured using data obtained exclusively from wide photometric surveys in one of two ways: directly from the amplitude of the weak lensing signal or, indirectly, through the use of scaling relations…

Using a uniform analysis procedure, we measure spatially resolved weak gravitational lensing and hydrostatic X-ray masses for a sample of 18 clusters of galaxies. We find a radial trend in the X-ray to lensing mass ratio: at r2500 we obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Mahdavi , H. Hoekstra , A. Babul , J. P. Henry

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

We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 5 maps of the cosmic…

We compare the measurement of the gravitational mass of 38 high-redshift galaxy clusters observed by Chandra using Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and standard Newtonian gravity. Our analysis confirms earlier findings that MOND cannot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Carl Blaksley , Massimiliano Bonamente

Clusters of galaxies mass can be inferred by indirect observations, see X-ray band, Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect signal or optical. Unfortunately, all of them are affected by some bias. Alternatively, we provide an independent estimation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Florian Ruppin , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes , Ichraf Lahouli , Gianmarco Aversano , Romain Dupuis , Mahmoud Jarraya