Tracing cosmic evolution with clusters of galaxies

GM Voit - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2005 - APS
The most successful cosmological models to date envision structure formation as a
hierarchical process in which gravity is constantly drawing lumps of matter together to form …

Modified Newtonian dynamics as an alternative to dark matter

RH Sanders, SS McGaugh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an empirically motivated modification of
Newtonian gravity or inertia suggested by Milgrom as an alternative to cosmic dark matter …

The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies

DJ Barnes, ST Kay, YM Bahé… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the Cluster-EAGLE (c-eagle) simulation project, a set of cosmological
hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the formation of 30 galaxy clusters in the mass range of …

Effects of galaxy formation on thermodynamics of the intracluster medium

D Nagai, AV Kravtsov, A Vikhlinin - The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We present detailed comparisons of the intracluster medium (ICM) in cosmological Eulerian
cluster simulations with deep Chandra observations of nearby relaxed clusters. To assess …

Constraints on dark energy from Chandra observations of the largest relaxed galaxy clusters

SW Allen, RW Schmidt, H Ebeling… - Monthly Notices of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We present constraints on the mean dark energy density, ΩX and dark energy equation of
state parameter, w X, based on Chandra measurements of the X-ray gas mass fraction in 26 …

Intracluster medium entropy profiles for a Chandra archival sample of galaxy clusters

KW Cavagnolo, M Donahue, GM Voit… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present radial entropy profiles of the intracluster medium (ICM) for a collection of 239
clusters taken from the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Data Archive. Entropy is of great …

The ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample — I. The compilation of the sample and the cluster log N—log S distribution

H Ebeling, AC Edge, H Böhringer… - Monthly Notices of …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
We present a 90 per cent flux-complete sample of the 201 X-ray-brightest clusters of
galaxies in the northern hemisphere (δ≥ 0°), at high Galactic latitudes (ǀ b ǀ≥ 20°), with …

X-ray spectroscopy of cooling clusters

JR Peterson, AC Fabian - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
We review the X-ray spectra of the cores of clusters of galaxies. Recent high resolution X-ray
spectroscopic observations have demonstrated a severe deficit of emission at the lowest X …

CALIFA: a diameter-selected sample for an integral field spectroscopy galaxy survey

CJ Walcher, L Wisotzki, S Bekeraité… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
We describe and discuss the selection procedure and statistical properties of the galaxy
sample used by the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey, a public legacy …

Chandra X-ray observations of the Hydra A cluster: an interaction between the radio source and the X-ray-emitting gas

BR McNamara, M Wise, PEJ Nulsen… - The Astrophysical …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
We present Chandra X-ray observations of the Hydra A cluster of galaxies, and we report the
discovery of structure in the central 80 kpc of the cluster's X-ray–emitting gas. The most …