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We use a combination of N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter and semi-analytic modelling of the physics of galaxy formation to probe the relationship between the galaxy distribution and the mass distribution. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Benson , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

We use weak lensing shear measurements of six z>0.5 clusters of galaxies to derive the mean lensing redshift of the background galaxies used to measure the shear. Five of these clusters are compared to X-ray mass models and verify a mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser

We describe a new open source package for calculating properties of galaxy clusters, including NFW halo profiles with and without the effects of cluster miscentering. This pure-Python package, cluster-lensing, provides well-documented and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Jes Ford , Jake VanderPlas

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering data has the potential to simultaneously constrain both the cosmological and galaxy formation models. In this paper we perform a comprehensive exploration of these signals and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Raul E. Angulo

We discuss some recent progress in constructing analytic approximations to the galaxy clustering. We show that successful models can be constructed for the clustering of both dark matter and dark matter haloes. Our understanding of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 H. J. Mo

In this work we want to study the average mass density profile of tens to hundreds of clusters of galaxies acting as lenses that produce a magnification bias on the SMGs, and to estimate their associated masses and concentrations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 L. Fernandez , M. M. Cueli , J. González-Nuevo , L. Bonavera , D. Crespo , J. M. Casas , A. Lapi

Classically, Bayesian clustering interprets each component of a mixture model as a cluster. The inferred clustering posterior is highly sensitive to any inaccuracies in the kernel within each component. As this kernel is made more flexible,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-12 David Buch , Miheer Dewaskar , David B. Dunson

We study the relative fraction of galaxy morphological types in clusters, as a function of the projected local galaxy density and different global parameters: cluster projected gas density, cluster projected total mass density , and reduced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Mariano Dominguez , Hernan Muriel , Diego G. Lambas

Context. Biases in mass measurements of galaxy clusters are one of the major limiting systematics in constraining cosmology with clusters. Aims. We aim to demonstrate that the systematics associated with cluster gravitational potentials are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. Tchernin , E. T. Lau , S. Stapelberg , D. Hug , M. Bartelmann

This paper presents the results of a systematic study of projection biases in the Weak Lensing analysis of cosmic shear and the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using data collected during the first-year of running…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 P. R. V. Chintalapati , G. Gutierrez , M. H. L. S. Wang

We consider the possibility that masses and gravitational potentials of galaxy cluster, estimated at X-ray wavelengths, could be explained without assuming huge amounts of dark matter, but in the context of $f(R)$-gravity. Specifically, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 S. Capozziello , E. De Filippis , V. Salzano

Galaxy clusters have a triaxial matter distribution. The weak-lensing signal, an important part in cosmological studies, measures the projected mass of all matter along the line-of-sight, and therefore changes with the orientation of the…

(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

This work attains a threefold objective: first, we derived the richness-mass scaling in the local Universe from data of 53 clusters with individual measurements of mass. We found a 0.46+-0.12 slope and a 0.25+-0.03 dex scatter measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Andreon , J. Bergé

Measurements of the shear induced by weak gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster lines of sight are the gold standard for calibrating cluster observable-mass relations, thereby enabling a robust and precise inference of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 S. Bocquet , A. Fumagalli , C. T. Davies , K. Dolag , S. Grandis , J. J. Mohr

We have used a combination of high resolution cosmological N-body simulations and semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation to investigate the processes that determine the spatial distribution of galaxies in cold dark matter (CDM) models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey

Galaxy clusters are considered as excellent probes for cosmology. For that purpose, their mass needs to be measured and their structural properties needs to be understood. We propose a method for galaxy cluster mass reconstruction which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-19 Xinzhong Er , Guoliang Li , Peter Schneider

I show that the most common method of quantifying the likelihood that an extreme galaxy cluster could exist is biased and can result in false claims of tension with LambdaCDM. This common method uses the probability that at least one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-10 Shaun Hotchkiss

We examine the influence of the morphology-density(MD) relation and a wide range of simple models for biased galaxy formation on statistical measures of large scale structure. We contrast the behavior of local biasing models, in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vijay K. Narayanan , Andreas Berlind , David H. Weinberg

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum