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We investigate the cosmological dependence and the constraining power of large-scale galaxy correlations, including all redshift-distortions, wide-angle, lensing and gravitational potential effects on linear scales. We analyze the…

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Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) power spectrum is one of the most sensitive methods to constrain cosmological parameters, scaling as the amplitude $\sigma_8^8$. It is determined by the integral over the halo mass function multiplied by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Benjamin Horowitz , Uroš Seljak

We present a forecast of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurement that will be achievable with the future CMB-S4 experiment. CMB-S4 is the next stage for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 E. Schiappucci , S. Raghunathan , C. To , F. Bianchini , C. L. Reichardt , N. Battaglia , B. Hadzhiyska , S. Kim , J. B. Melin , C. Sifón , E. M. Vavagiakis

Studies of galaxy clusters have proved crucial in helping to establish the standard model of cosmology, with a universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. A theoretical basis that describes clusters as massive, multi-component,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Steven W. Allen , August E. Evrard , Adam B. Mantz

All models of dynamical dark energy possess fluctuations, which affect the number of galaxy clusters in the Universe. We have studied the impact of dark energy clustering on the number of clusters using a generalization of the spherical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 L. Raul Abramo , Ronaldo C. Batista , Rogerio Rosenfeld

We present a quantitative study of the X-ray morphology of galaxy clusters, as a function of their detection method and redshift. We analyze two separate samples of galaxy clusters: a sample of 36 clusters at 0.35 < z < 0.9 selected in the…

Wide-separation lensed QSOs measure the mass function and evolution of massive galaxy clusters, in a similar way to the cluster mass function deduced from X-ray-selected samples or statistical measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ana M. Lopes , Lance Miller

Weak lensing peak abundance analyses have been applied in different surveys and demonstrated to be a powerful statistics in extracting cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation studies. Future large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan , Xiangkun Liu , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan

Stacking cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps around known galaxy clusters and groups provides a powerful probe of the distribution of hot gas in these systems via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. A stacking analysis allows one to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Vinu Vikram , Adam Lidz , Bhuvnesh Jain

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a promising tool for detecting the presence of hot gas out to the galaxy cluster peripheries. We developed a spectral imaging algorithm dedicated to the SZ observations of nearby galaxy clusters with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta , E. Rasia

In this paper we study the clustering of SZ-selected galaxy clusters on a past light-cone, particularly paying attention to the possibility of constraining properties of dark energy. The prospects of detecting baryonic features in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Huetsi

We critically analyze the measurement of galaxy cluster gas masses, which is central to cosmological studies that rely on the galaxy cluster gas mass fraction. Using synthetic observations of numerically simulated clusters viewed through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric J. Hallman , Patrick M. Motl , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman

The pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters is a probe of their line-of-sight momenta, and thus a potentially valuable source of cosmological information. In addition to the momenta, the amplitude of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 Samuel Flender , Lindsey Bleem , Hal Finkel , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Gilbert Holder

Galaxy clusters, the most massive collapsed structures, have been routinely used to determine cosmological parameters. When using clusters for cosmology, the crucial assumption is that they are relaxed. However, subarcminute resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandor M. Molnar , Nathan C. Hearn , Joachim G. Stadel

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

The Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters is one of the most powerful cosmological tools for investigating the large-scale Universe. The big advantage of the SZ effect is its redshift independence, which is not the case for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Conte , M. De Petris , B. Comis , L. Lamagna , S. De Gregori

We study lensing magnification of source galaxies by intervening galaxy groups and clusters using a halo model. Halos are modeled with truncated NFW profiles with ellipticity added to their lensing potential and propagated to observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcos Lima , Bhuvnesh Jain , Mark Devlin

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is a powerful probe of cosmology. The statistical errors in the tSZ power spectrum measurements are dominated by the presence of massive clusters in a survey volume that are easy to identify on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Ken Osato , Masahiro Takada

Upcoming cosmic shear analyses will precisely measure the cosmic matter distribution at low redshifts. At these redshifts, the matter distribution is affected by galaxy formation physics, primarily baryonic feedback from star formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Chun-Hao To , Shivam Pandey , Elisabeth Krause , Nihar Dalal , Dhayaa Anbajagane , David H. Weinberg

We analyse the correlation function of mock galaxy clusters in redshift space. We constructed several mock catalogues designed to mimic the selection biases inherent in a variety of observational surveys. We explore different effects that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. D. Padilla , D. G. Lambas