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We present cosmological N-body resimulations of the assembly of the Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in rich clusters. At $z=2$ we populate dark matter subhalos with self-gravitating stellar systems whose abundance and structure match…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-09 Chervin F. P. Laporte , Simon D. M. White

We present a spatially-resolved analysis of the temperature and gas density profiles of galaxy clusters at z=0.4-0.7 observed with XMM-Newton. These data are used to derive the total cluster mass within the radius r_500 without assuming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Kotov , A. Vikhlinin

Evidence is presented for a recent evolution of the relaxation processes in clusters of galaxies, using large optical and X-ray cluster samples. The criteria of the cluster relaxation used are the cluster ellipticity, the ICM temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manolis Plionis

We present an XMM-Newton observation of A1413, a hot (kT = 6.5 keV) galaxy cluster at z=0.143. We construct gas and temperature profiles up to ~1700 kpc, equivalent to ~0.7 r_200. The gas distribution is well described by a beta model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud

Clusters of galaxies are thought to contain about ten times as much dark matter as baryonic matter. The dark component therefore dominates the gravitational potential of the cluster, and the baryons confined by this potential radiate X-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. Mark Voit , Greg L. Bryan

The links between the internal structure of galaxy groups and clusters and cosmological parameters are reviewed here. The mass density profiles of clusters, inferred from both optical analyses of the galaxy surface number density profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Gary A. Mamon

A sample consisting of 27 X-ray selected galaxy clusters from the XMM-LSS survey is used to study the evolution in the X-ray surface brightness profiles of the hot intracluster plasma. These systems are mostly groups and poor clusters, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Abdulmonem Alshino , Trevor Ponman , Florian Pacaud , Marguerite Pierre

Context. Scaling relations between cluster properties embody the formation and evolution of cosmic structure. Intrinsic scatters and correlations between X-ray properties are determined from merger history, baryonic processes, and dynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Mauro Sereno , Stefano Ettori , Dominique Eckert , Paul Giles , Ben J. Maughan , Florian Pacaud , Marguerite Pierre , Patrick Valageas

Increasing evidences provided primarily by the cluster lensing and numerical simulations of cluster formation indicate that galaxy clusters may contain compact cores that are substantially smaller than the cores revealed by the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tzihong Chiueh , Xiang-Ping Wu

The failure of purely gravitational models of X-ray cluster formation to reproduce basic observed properties of the local cluster population suggests the need for one or more additional physical processes operating on the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John J. Bialek , August E. Evrard , Joseph J. Mohr

Based on the two-parameter family nature of X-ray clusters of galaxies obtained in a separate paper, we discuss the formation history of clusters and cosmological parameters of the universe. Utilizing the spherical collapse model of cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yutaka Fujita , Fumio Takahara

Mahdavi et al. find that the degree of agreement between weak lensing and X-ray mass measurements is a function of cluster radius. Numerical simulations also point out that X-ray mass proxies do not work equally well at all radii. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Yu-Ying Zhang , Thomas H Reiprich , Alexis Finoguenov , Daniel S. Hudson , Craig L Sarazin

We investigate the redshift dependence of X-ray cluster scaling relations drawn from three hydrodynamic simulations of the LCDM cosmology: a Radiative model that incorporates radiative cooling of the gas, a Preheating model that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Orrarujee Muanwong , Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas

In the framework of the hierarchical model the intra-cluster medium properties of galaxy clusters are tightly linked to structure formation, which makes X-ray surveys well suited for cosmological studies. To constrain cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Florian Käfer , Alexis Finoguenov , Dominique Eckert , Jeremy S. Sanders , Thomas H. Reiprich , Kirpal Nandra

We analyze with hydrodynamical simulations the evolution of galaxy clusters in a cosmological environment. Power ratios (Buote \& Tsai 1995) are used to quantitatively relate cluster morphologies to their dynamical states. The simulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John C. Tsai , David A. Buote

We aim at studying scaling relations of a small but well defined sample of galaxy clusters that includes the recently discovered class of objects that are X-ray faint for their mass. These clusters have an average low X-ray surface…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 S. Andreon , G. Trinchieri , A. Moretti

In this work, we report on a detailed simulation of the Bullet Cluster (1E0657-56) merger, including magnetohydrodynamics, plasma cooling, and adaptive mesh refinement. We constrain the simulation with data from gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-21 Craig Lage , Glennys Farrar

The intracluster medium (ICM), composed of hot plasma, dominates the baryonic content of galaxy clusters and is primarily observable in X-rays. Its thermodynamic properties, pressure, temperature, entropy, and electron density, offer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Elena Hernández-Martínez , Klaus Dolag , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Jenny G. Sorce , Théo Lebeau , Nabila Aghanim , Benjamin Seidel

Analyses of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters suggest that X-ray masses can be underestimated by 10% to 30%. The largest bias originates by both violation of hydrostatic equilibrium and an additional temperature bias…

X-ray observations of the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) in galaxy groups and clusters provide quantities such as their gas mass, X-ray luminosity, and temperature. The analysis of the scaling relations between these observable properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Lorenzo Lovisari , Ben J. Maughan