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We present an analysis of the splashback radius ($R_{\text{sp}}$) and the associated splashback mass ($M_{\text{sp}}$) for a sample of galaxy clusters using SDSS spectroscopic data and mock simulations. $R_{\text{sp}}$ marks a physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Lucas Gabriel-Silva , Laerte Sodré

We show that the projected number density profiles of SDSS photometric galaxies around galaxy clusters displays strong evidence for the splashback radius, a sharp halo edge corresponding to the location of the first orbital apocenter of…

The splashback radius was proposed as a physically motivated boundary of clusters as it sets the limit between the infalling and the orbitally dominated regions. However, galaxy clusters are complex objects connected to filaments of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Théo Lebeau , Stefano Ettori , Nabila Aghanim , Jenny G. Sorce

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

The splashback radius, the radius of the apocenter of the first orbit of infalling material, is a measurable quantity marking the boundary between a galaxy cluster and its infalling region. We report detections of splashback radii in total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 A. Trudeau , Anthony H. Gonzalez , K. Thongkham , M. Brodwin , Thomas Connor , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt , Emily Moravec , S. A. Stanford , D. Stern

We explore how the splashback radius ($R_{\rm sp}$) of galaxy clusters, measured using the number density of the subhalo population, changes based on various selection criteria using the IllustrisTNG cosmological galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 Stephanie O'Neil , Josh Borrow , Mark Vogelsberger , Benedikt Diemer

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…

Cosmological parameters such as $\Omega_{\rm{M}}$ and $\sigma_{8}$ can be measured indirectly using various methods, including galaxy cluster abundance and cosmic shear. These measurements constrain the composite parameter $S_{8}$, leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Roan Haggar , Yuba Amoura , Charlie T. Mpetha , James E. Taylor , Kris Walker , Chris Power

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…

We present the direct detection of the splashback feature using the sample of massive galaxy clusters from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). This feature is clearly detected (above $5\sigma$) in the stacked luminosity density…

The splashback radius of a dark matter halo, which corresponds to the first apocenter radius reached by infalling matter and substructures, has been detected around galaxy clusters using a multitude of observational methods, including weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Yuanyuan Zhang , Susmita Adhikari , Matteo Costanzi , Josh Frieman , Jim Annis , Chihway Chang

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

Context. Weak gravitational lensing offers a powerful method to investigate the projected matter density distribution within galaxy clusters, granting crucial insights into the broader landscape of dark matter on cluster scales. Aims. In…

We report the results of a study of the distribution of galaxies in the projection along the radius ($R \leq 3R_{200c}$) for 157~groups and clusters of galaxies in the local Universe (0.01 < $z$ < 0.10) with line-of-sight velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Flera G. Kopylova , Alexander I. Kopylov

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 constraints on the splashback radius around optically selected galaxy clusters from the redMaPPer cluster-finding algorithm in the literature have shown that the observed splashback radius is $\sim 20\%$ smaller than that predicted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Ryoma Murata , Tomomi Sunayama , Masamune Oguri , Surhud More , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ken Osato

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

The splashback radius $R_{\rm sp}$, the apocentric radius of particles on their first orbit after falling into a dark matter halo, has recently been suggested as a physically motivated halo boundary that separates accreting from orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-17 Benedikt Diemer , Philip Mansfield , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Surhud More

The splashback radius is one popular method of constraining the size of galaxy clusters, often measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile. However, measuring the splashback radius through the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Talia M. O'Shea , Josh Borrow , Stephanie O'Neil , Mark Vogelsberger

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2 (MaDCoWS2) is a WISE-selected catalog of galaxy clusters at $0.1<z<2$ covering an effective area of $>6000$ deg$^2$. In this paper, we derive splashback radii for this cluster ensemble from…

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