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We present angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy due to fluctuations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect through clusters of galaxies. A contribution from the correlation among clusters is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eiichiro Komatsu , Tetsu Kitayama

We develop a new method of combining cluster observables (number counts and cluster-cluster correlation functions) and stacked weak lensing signals of background galaxy shapes, both of which are available in a wide-field optical imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Masamune Oguri , Masahiro Takada

We consider the prospects for measuring the pairwise kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters discovered in large photometric surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We project that the DES cluster sample will, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ryan Keisler , Fabian Schmidt

We present a new method for joint cosmological parameter inference and cluster mass calibration from a combination of weak lensing measurements and the abundance of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) selected galaxy clusters. We combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Andrina Nicola , Jo Dunkley , David N. Spergel

We compare cluster scaling relations published for three different samples selected via X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signatures. We find tensions driven mainly by two factors: i) systematic differences in the X-ray cluster observables…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eduardo Rozo , August E. Evrard , Eli S. Rykoff , James G. Bartlett

Using a non-parametric procedure developed by Kaiser \& Squires (1993), we analyse the statistical image distortions of faint field galaxies to $I\ls25.5$ in two distant X-ray luminous clusters 1455+22 ($z_{cl}=0.26$) and 0016+16…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ian Smail , Richard S. Ellis , Michael J. Fitchett , Alastair C. Edge

We present a statistical strategy for the efficient determination of the cluster luminosity function from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects survey. To determine the cluster luminosity function from the noise contaminated SZ map, we first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jounghun Lee

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

We study the projection effects on various observables of clusters of galaxies at redshift near zero, including cluster richness, velocity dispersion, X-ray luminosity, three total mass estimates (velocity-based, temperature-based and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Renyue Cen

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

The $\Lambda$CDM model of structure formation makes strong predictions on concentration and shape of DM (dark matter) halos, which are determined by mass accretion processes. Comparison between predicted shapes and observations provides a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Mauro Sereno , Keiichi Umetsu , Stefano Ettori , Jack Sayers , I-Non Chiu , Massimo Meneghetti , Jesús Vega-Ferrero , Adi Zitrin

Galaxy clusters provide an avenue to expand our knowledge of cosmology and galaxy evolution. Because it is difficult to accurately measure the total mass of a large number of individual clusters, cluster samples are typically selected using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Roi Kugel , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Ian G. McCarthy , Joey Braspenning , John C. Helly , Victor J. Forouhar Moreno , Robert J. McGibbon

Weak-lensing measurements of the averaged shear profiles of galaxy clusters binned by some proxy for cluster mass are commonly converted to cluster mass estimates under the assumption that these cluster stacks have spherical symmetry. In…

The cosmological parameters prefered by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies predict many more galaxy clusters than those that have been detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. This tension has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 G. Hurier , R. E. Angulo

The intrinsic shape of galaxy clusters can be obtained through a combination of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect observations once cosmological parameters are assumed to be known. In this paper we discuss the feasibility of modelling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Sereno , E. De Filippis , G. Longo , M. W. Bautz

Complex astrophysical systems often exhibit low-scatter relations between observable properties (e.g., luminosity, velocity dispersion, oscillation period). These scaling relations illuminate the underlying physics, and can provide…

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a window into the astrophysical processes of galaxy clusters, and relativistic corrections (the "rSZ") promise to provide a global census of the gas feedback within clusters. Upcoming wide-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 L. Kuhn , Z. Li , William R. Coulton

Successive releases of Planck data have demonstrated the strength of the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect in detecting hot baryons out to the galaxy cluster peripheries. To infer the hot gas pressure structure from nearby galaxy clusters to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-10 H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta , A. Kozmanyan , C. Jones , A. Vikhlinin

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For $39$ massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effect (SZE) with the APEX telescope, we analyse deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Matthias Klein , Holger Israel , Aarti Nagarajan , Frank Bertoldi , Florian Pacaud , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Sommer , Kaustuv Basu