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We present a detailed study of the shapes and alignments of different galaxy cluster components using hydrodynamical simulations. We compute shape parameters from the Dark Matter (DM) distribution, the galaxy members and the intra-cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Elizabeth J. Gonzalez , Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Carlos J. Donzelli , Martín Makler , Diego García Lambas , Gian Luigi Granato

We present the results of a Chandra X-ray survey of the 8 most massive galaxy clusters at z>1.2 in the South Pole Telescope 2500 deg^2 survey. We combine this sample with previously-published Chandra observations of 49 massive…

We present an analysis of the evolution of galaxy clustering in the redshift interval 0<z<4.5 in the HDF-S. The HST optical data are combined with infrared ISAAC/VLT observations, and photometric redshifts are used for all the galaxies…

(Abridged) We use two very large cosmological simulations to study how the density profiles of relaxed LCDM dark halos depend on redshift and on halo mass. We confirm that these profiles deviate slightly but systematically from the NFW form…

Do cool-core (CC) and noncool-core (NCC) clusters live in different environments? We make novel use of H$\alpha$ emission lines in the central galaxies of redMaPPer clusters as proxies to construct large (1,000's) samples of CC and NCC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Elinor Medezinski , Michael McDonald , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Nicholas Battaglia , Massimo Gaspari , David Spergel , Renyue Cen

With rapid improvements in the assembly of large samples of galaxy clusters, we are approaching the ability to study clusters at $z\gtrsim2$. Evolutionary studies comparing these distant clusters to the clusters in our local universe depend…

We present a morphological study of galaxies in the A901/902 supercluster from the COMBO-17 survey. A total of 570 galaxies with photometric redshifts in the range 0.155 < z_phot < 0.185 are visually classified by three independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. P. Lane , M. E. Gray , A. Aragon-Salamanca , C. Wolf , K. Meisenheimer

We use numerical simulations of critically-closed cold dark matter (CDM) models to study the effects of numerical resolution on observable quantities. We study simulations with up to $256^3$ particles using the particle-mesh (PM) method and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 James M. Gelb , Edmund Bertschinger

We present high resolution N-body/SPH simulations of the interacting cluster 1E0657-56. The main and the sub-cluster are modeled using extended cuspy LCDM dark matter halos and isothermal beta-profiles for the collisional component. The hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chiara Mastropietro , Andreas Burkert

I present an analysis of the density shapes of dark matter halos in LCDM and LWDM cosmologies. The main results are derived from a statistical sample of galaxy-mass halos drawn from a high resolution LCDM N-body simulation. Halo shapes show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 James S. Bullock

We present the ellipticity distribution and its evolution for early-type galaxies in clusters from z~0.8 to z~0, based on the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS)(0.04<z<0.07), and the ESO Distant Cluster Survey…

The hierarchical mergers that form the haloes of dark matter surrounding galaxies, groups and clusters are not entirely efficient, leaving substantial amounts of dense substructure, in the form of stripped halo cores or `subhaloes',…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James E. Taylor , Arif Babul

[abridged] We analyze a sample of 9 massive clusters at 0.4<z<0.6 observed with MegaCam in 4 photometric bands (g,r,i,z) from the core to a radius of 5 Mpc (~4000 galaxies). Galaxy cluster candidates are selected using photometric redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Huertas-Company , G. Foex , G. Soucail , R. Pello

We study the formation of dark halos in a $\Lambda$CDM universe under the assumption that Cold Dark Matter particles have a finite cross-section for elastic collisions. We compare evolution when CDM mean free paths are comparable to halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 Naoki Yoshida , Volker Springel , Simon D. M. White , Giuseppe Tormen

We extend the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) framework to generate mock galaxy catalogs exhibiting varying levels of "galactic conformity", which has emerged as a potentially powerful probe of environmental effects in galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-23 Aseem Paranjape , Katarina Kovac , William G. Hartley , Isha Pahwa

We explore the clustering properties of high redshift dark matter halos, focusing on halos massive enough to host early generations of stars or galaxies at redshift 10 and greater. Halos are extracted from an array of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Darren S. Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

We investigate the large-scale distribution of galaxy clusters taken from several X-ray catalogs. Different statistics of clustering like the conditional correlation function (CCF) and the minimal spanning tree (MST) as well as void…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-16 A. V. Tikhonov , A. I. Kopylov , S. Gottlober , G. Yepes

In this fourth paper from the AGORA Collaboration, we study the evolution down to redshift $z=2$ and below of a set of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way mass galaxy by eight of the leading hydrodynamic simulation codes. We…

We investigate the properties of globular clusters in a galaxy cluster, using the particle tagging method with a semi-analytical approach in a cosmological context. We assume globular clusters form from dark matter halo mergers and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 So-Myoung Park , Jihye Shin , Rory Smith , Kyungwon Chun