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In this letter, we present a new determination of the local (z<0.09) X-ray luminosity function (XLF) using a large, statistical sample of 294 Abell clusters and the ROSAT All-Sky-Survey. Given our large sample size, we have reduced errors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael J. Ledlow , Chris Loken , Jack O. Burns , Frazer N. Owen , Wolfgang Voges

We calculate the abundance of dark-matter concentrations that are sufficiently overdense to produce a detectable weak-gravitational-lensing signal. Most of these overdensities are virialized halos containing identifiable X-ray and/or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nevin N. Weinberg , Marc Kamionkowski

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

We present an optical analysis of a sample of 11 clusters built from the EXCPRES sample of X-ray selected clusters at intermediate redshift (z ~ 0.5). With a careful selection of the background galaxies we provide the mass maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Genevieve Soucail , Gael Foex , Etienne Pointecouteau , Monique Arnaud , Marceau Limousin

We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXCJ2248 ($z=0.348$) with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage of extensive spectroscopic information on many multiply…

We present a detailed study of the morphological features of 22 rich galaxy clusters. Our sample is constructed from a cross-correlation of optical (Abell+APM) data with X-ray (0.1 - 2.4) keV ROSAT pointed observations. We systematically…

We analyse the Chandra dataset of the galaxy cluster MS1008.1-1224 to recover an estimate of the gravitating mass as function of the radius and compare these results with the weak lensing reconstruction of the mass distribution obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Ettori , M. Lombardi

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

Scaling properties of galaxy cluster observables with mass provide central insights into the processes shaping clusters. Calibrating proxies for cluster mass will be crucial to cluster cosmology with upcoming surveys like eROSITA and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Holger Israel , Thomas H. Reiprich , Thomas Erben , Richard J. Massey , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider , Alexey Vikhlinin

We present the radial distribution of the dark matter in two massive, X-ray luminous galaxy clusters, Abell~2142 and Abell~2319, and compare it with the quantity predicted as apparent manifestation of the baryonic mass in the context of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Ettori , V. Ghirardini , D. Eckert , F. Dubath , E. Pointecouteau

We present weak lensing and X-ray analysis of 12 low mass clusters from the CFHTLenS and XMM-CFHTLS surveys. We combine these systems with high-mass systems from CCCP and low-mass systems from COSMOS to obtain a sample of 70 systems,…

(Abridged) We quantify the bias and scatter in galaxy cluster masses and concentrations derived from an idealised mock weak gravitational lensing (WL) survey, and their effect on the cluster mass-concentration relation. For this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yannick M. Bahé , Ian G. McCarthy , Lindsay J. King

We present weak-lensing mass measurements of 50 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at $0.15\le z\le0.3$, based on uniform high quality observations with Suprime-Cam mounted on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope. We pay close attention to possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nobuhiro Okabe , Graham P. Smith

We update the publicly available weak lensing shear measurement algorithm pyRRG for the James Webb Space Telescope, and apply it to UNCOVER DR1 imaging of galaxy cluster Abell 2744. At short wavelengths (< 2.5$\mu$m), shear measurements are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 David R. Harvey , Richard Massey

We analyze the internal structures of clusters A1689 and A2218 by applying a recent development of the method of wavelet analysis, which uses the complete information obtained from optical data, i.e. galaxy positions and redshifts. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Girardi , D. Fadda , E. Escalera , G. Giuricin , F. Mardirossian , M. Mezzetti

We report the discovery of a cluster of galaxies via its weak gravitational lensing effect on background galaxies, the first spectroscopically confirmed cluster to be discovered through its gravitational effects rather than by its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Wittman , J. A. Tyson , V. E. Margoniner , J. G. Cohen , I. P. Dell'Antonio

We present a weak lensing and multi-wavelength analysis of three galaxy clusters: A115, A2219, and A2261. Weak lensing is performed using shape measurements made in short 60s exposure images obtained using WIYN-ODI. Forced measurement is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Anirban Dutta , John Peterson , Matteo Cianfaglione , Glenn Sembroski

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies provides a direct probe of the projected matter distribution in and around galaxy clusters. Here we present a self-contained pedagogical review of cluster--galaxy weak lensing, covering a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Keiichi Umetsu

We investigate whether the shapes of galaxy clusters inferred from weak gravitational lensing can be used as a test of the nature of dark matter. We analyse mock weak lensing data, with gravitational lenses extracted from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Andrew Robertson , Eric Huff , Katarina Markovic

Various differences in galaxy cluster properties derived from X-ray and weak lensing observations have been highlighted in the literature. One such difference is the observation of mass concentrations in lensing maps which have no X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Leila C. Powell , Scott T. Kay , Arif Babul , Andisheh Mahdavi