Scaling properties of galaxy groups

L Lovisari, S Ettori, M Gaspari, PA Giles - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups and poor clusters are more common than rich clusters, and host the largest
fraction of matter content in the Universe. Hence, their studies are key to understand the …

X-ray properties of groups of galaxies

JS Mulchaey - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract ROSAT observations indicate that approximately half of all nearby groups of
galaxies contain spatially extended X-ray emission. The radial extent of the X-ray emission …

The atacama cosmology telescope: A catalog of> 4000 Sunyaev–Zel'dovich galaxy clusters

M Hilton, C Sifón, S Naess… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev–Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy
clusters detected with signal-to-noise ratio> 4 in 13,211 deg 2 of sky surveyed by the …

Chandra sample of nearby relaxed galaxy clusters: mass, gas fraction, and mass-temperature relation

A Vikhlinin, A Kravtsov, W Forman… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We present gas and total mass profiles for 13 low-redshift, relaxed clusters spanning a
temperature range 0.7-9 keV, derived from all available Chandra data of sufficient quality. In …

Chandra cluster cosmology project. II. Samples and X-ray data reduction

A Vikhlinin, RA Burenin, H Ebeling… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss the measurements of the galaxy cluster mass functions at z≈ 0.05 and z≈ 0.5
using high-quality Chandra observations of samples derived from the ROSAT PSPC All-Sky …

MACS: a quest for the most massive galaxy clusters in the universe

H Ebeling, AC Edge, JP Henry - arXiv preprint astro-ph/0009101, 2000 - arxiv.org
We describe the design and current status of a new X-ray cluster survey aimed at the
compilation of a statistically complete sample of very X-ray luminous (and thus, by inference …

A new robust low-scatter X-ray mass indicator for clusters of galaxies

AV Kravtsov, A Vikhlinin, D Nagai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comparison of X-ray proxies for the total cluster mass, M 500, including the
spectral temperature (TX), gas mass measured within r 500 (M g, 500), and the new proxy …

HST photometry of dwarf elliptical galaxies in coma, and an explanation for the alleged structural dichotomy between dwarf and bright elliptical galaxies

AW Graham, R Guzmán - The Astronomical Journal, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
As part of a research program exploring how and why dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies depart
from the fundamental plane defined by luminous elliptical (E) galaxies, we have analyzed …

The northern ROSAT all-sky (NORAS) galaxy cluster survey. I. X-ray properties of clusters detected as extended X-ray sources

H Böhringer, W Voges, JP Huchra… - The Astrophysical …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
In the construction of an X-ray–selected sample of galaxy clusters for cosmological studies,
we have assembled a sample of 495 X-ray sources found to show extended X-ray emission …

Testing X-ray measurements of galaxy clusters with cosmological simulations

D Nagai, A Vikhlinin, AV Kravtsov - The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if
systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the ICM physics is understood and …