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Upcoming millimeter experiments that probe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will observe tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. tSZ selected clusters are powerful probes of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Dylan Cromer , Nicholas Battaglia , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

In this paper, we describe a procedure for modelling strong lensing galaxy clusters with parametric methods, and to rank models quantitatively using the Bayesian evidence. We use a publicly available Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) sampler…

We propose a new cosmological test of gravity, by using the observed mass fraction of X-ray emitting gas in massive galaxy clusters. The cluster gas fraction, believed to be a fair sample of the average baryon fraction in the Universe, is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Baojiu Li , Jian-hua He , Liang Gao

We present a parameterized model of the intra-cluster medium that is suitable for jointly analysing pointed observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and X-ray emission in galaxy clusters. The model is based on assumptions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. R. Allison , A. C. Taylor , M. E. Jones , S. Rawlings , S. T. Kay

Galaxy clusters identified with optical imaging tend to suffer from projection effects, which impact richness (the number of member galaxies in a cluster) and lensing coherently. Physically unassociated galaxies can be mistaken as cluster…

Galaxy clusters are one of the most powerful probes to study extensions of General Relativity and the Standard Cosmological Model. Upcoming surveys like the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Markus Michael Rau , Florian Kéruzoré , Nesar Ramachandra , Lindsey Bleem

Following on our previous study of an analytic parametric model to describe the baryonic and dark matter distributions in clusters of galaxies with spherical symmetry, we perform an SZ analysis of a set of simulated clusters and present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Olamaie , M. P. Hobson , K. J. B. Grainge

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster surveys are considered among the most promising methods for probing dark energy up to large redshifts. However, their premise is hinged upon an accurate mass-observable relationship, which could be affected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-29 Niayesh Afshordi

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

Ongoing and future wide-field galaxy surveys can be used to locate a number of clusters of galaxies with cosmic shear measurement alone. We study constraints on cosmological models using statistics of weak lensing selected galaxy clusters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

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 discuss prospects for cluster detection via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in a blank field survey with the proposed interferometer array, the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI). Clusters of galaxies selected in the SZ effect probe…

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…

Galaxy cluster surveys compiled via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect have the potential to place strong constraints on cosmology, and in particular the nature of dark energy. Here we consider cluster velocity surveys using kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Suman Bhattacharya , Arthur Kosowsky

We propose a new method to model cluster scaling relations in modified gravity. Using a suite of non-radiative hydrodynamical simulations, we show that the scaling relations of cumulative gas quantities, such as the Sunyaev Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Jian-hua He , Baojiu Li

If the mean properties of clusters of galaxies are well described by the entropy-driven model, the distortion induced by the cluster population on the blackbody spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is proportional to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Hern'andez-Monteagudo , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. P. Mücket

Comparisons between observed and predicted strong lensing properties of galaxy clusters have been routinely used to claim either tension or consistency with $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. However, standard approaches to such cosmological tests are…

We present the first lensing mass measurements of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected clusters. Using optical imaging from the Southern Cosmology Survey (SCS), we present weak lensing masses for three clusters selected by their SZ emission in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rachel N. McInnes , Felipe Menanteau , Alan F. Heavens , John P. Hughes , Raul Jimenez , Richard Massey , Patrick Simon , Andy N. Taylor