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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…

Galaxy clusters are a recent cosmological probe. The precision and accuracy of the cosmological parameters inferred from these objects are affected by the knowledge of cluster physics, entering the analysis through the mass-observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Laura Salvati , Marian Douspis , Nabila Aghanim

We forecast constraints on the amplitude of matter clustering sigma_8(z) achievable with the combination of cluster weak lensing and number counts, in current and next-generation weak lensing surveys. We advocate an approach, analogous to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Hao-Yi Wu , David H. Weinberg , Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking

The properties of clusters of galaxies offer key insights into the assembly process of structure in the universe. Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation in a hierarchical, dark matter dominated universe suggest that galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julia M. Comerford , Priyamvada Natarajan

Super-sample covariance (SSC) is the dominant source of statistical error on large scale structure (LSS) observables for both current and future galaxy surveys. In this work, we concentrate on the SSC of cluster counts, also known as sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Fabien Lacasa , Marcos Lima , Michel Aguena

The abundance of clusters and the clustering of galaxies are two of the important cosmological probes for current and future large scale surveys of galaxies, such as the Dark Energy Survey. In order to combine them one has to account for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Fabien Lacasa , Rogerio Rosenfeld

We explore a variety of statistics of clusters selected with cosmic shear measurement by utilizing both analytic models and large numerical simulations. We first develop a halo model to predict the abundance and the clustering of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of the growth of cosmic structure through measurements of their abundance as a function of mass and redshift. Extracting precise cosmological constraints from cluster surveys is challenging, as we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Constantin Payerne , Calum Murray , Hugo Simon

Cosmological inference from cluster number counts is systematically limited by the accuracy of the mass calibration, i.e. the empirical determination of the mapping between cluster selection observables and halo mass. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Sebastian Grandis , Sebastian Bocquet , Joseph J. Mohr , Matthias Klein , Klaus Dolag

We study cell count moments up to fifth order of the distributions of haloes, of halo substructures as a proxy for galaxies, and of mass in the context of the halo model and compare theoretical predictions to the results of numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-27 J. N. Fry , Stephane Colombi , Pablo Fosalba , Anand Balaraman , Istvan Szapudi , Romain Teyssier

We use the Millennium Simulation, a 10 billion particle simulation of the growth of cosmic structure, to construct a new model of galaxy clustering. We adopt a methodology that falls midway between the traditional semi-analytic approach and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lan Wang , Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Gabriella De Lucia

Context: We present the first Cosmological Parameter inferences from eROSITA X-ray observations of galaxy clusters using a Machine Learning algorithm. Methods: We train a Random Forest using mock catalogs of clusters from Magneticum…

Velocity dispersions have been employed as a method to measure masses of clusters. To complement this conventional method, we explore the possibility of constraining cluster masses from the stacked phase space distribution of galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Akinari Hamabata , Masamune Oguri , Takahiro Nishimichi

We present a very large high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation, the Millennium-XXL or MXXL, which uses 303 billion particles to represent the formation of dark matter structures throughout a 4.1Gpc box in a LambdaCDM cosmology. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. E. Angulo , V. Springel , S. D. M. White , A. Jenkins , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are an invaluable tool for understanding galaxy formation and its impact on cosmological parameter inference from large-scale structure. However, their high computational cost is a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Alexandra Doytcheva , Filomela V. Gerou , Johannes U. Lange

Galaxy clusters, the pinnacle of structure formation in our universe, are a powerful cosmological probe. Several approaches have been proposed to express cluster number counts, but all these methods rely on empirical explicit scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Nicolas Cerardi , Marguerite Pierre , François Lanusse , Xavier Corap

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

One emerging application of machine learning methods is the inference of galaxy cluster masses. In this note, machine learning is used to directly combine five simulated multiwavelength measurements in order to find cluster masses. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. D. Cohn , Nicholas Battaglia

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