The Galaxy Cluster Mass Scale and Its Impact on Cosmological Constraints from the Cluster Population

ABSTRACT Cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing is a promising, novel way to measure galaxy cluster masses that can be used, e.g. for mass calibration in galaxy cluster counts analyses. Understanding the statistics of the galaxy cluster mass observable obtained with such measurements is essential if their use in subsequent analyses is not to lead to biased results. We study the statistics of a CMB lensing galaxy cluster mass observable for a Planck-like experiment with mock observations obtained from an N-body simulation. We quantify the bias and intrinsic scatter associated with this observable following two different approaches, one in which the signal due to the cluster and nearby correlated large-scale structure is isolated, and another one in which the variation due to uncorrelated large-scale structure is also taken into account. For our first approach, we also quantify deviations from lognormality in the scatter, finding them to have a negligible impact on mass calibration for our Planck-like experiment. We briefly discuss how some of our results change for experiments with higher angular resolution and lower noise levels, such as the current generation of surveys obtained with ground-based, large-aperture telescopes.

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Cosmological constraints from Planck galaxy clusters with CMB lensing mass bias calibration

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ◽

10.1093/mnras/stz2153 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 489 (1) ◽

pp. 401-419 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Íñigo Zubeldia ◽

Anthony Challinor

Keyword(s):

Galaxy Clusters ◽

Cosmological Parameters ◽

Mass Scale ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Cosmological Constraints ◽

Cluster Sample ◽

Mass Bias ◽

Cluster Mass ◽

Λcdm Model ◽

The Absolute

ABSTRACT We present a new cosmological analysis of the galaxy clusters in the Planck MMF3 cosmology sample with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing calibration of the cluster masses. As demonstrated by Planck, galaxy clusters detected via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) effect offer a powerful way to constrain cosmological parameters such as Ωm and σ8. Determining the absolute cluster mass scale is, however, difficult, and some recent calibrations have yielded cosmological constraints in apparent tension with constraints in the ΛCDM model derived from the power spectra of the primary CMB anisotropies. In order to calibrate the absolute mass scale of the full Planck cluster sample, we remeasure the masses of all 433 clusters through their weak lensing signature in the CMB temperature anisotropies as measured by Planck. We perform a joint Bayesian analysis of the cluster counts and masses taking as input the estimated cluster masses, SZ signal-to-noise ratios, and redshifts. Our analysis properly accounts for selection effects in the construction of the cluster sample. We find σ8(Ωm/0.33)0.25 = 0.765 ± 0.035 and $1-b_{\rm {SZ}} = 0.71 \pm 0.10$, where the mass bias factor $1-b_{\rm {SZ}}$ relates cluster mass to the SZ mass that appears in the X-ray-calibrated cluster scaling relations. We find no evidence for tension with the Planck primary CMB constraints on ΛCDM model parameters.

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The role of AGN activity in the building up of the BCG at z ∼ 1.6

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921320003105 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (S356) ◽

pp. 280-284

Author(s):

Angela Bongiorno ◽

Andrea Travascio

Keyword(s):

Galaxy Cluster ◽

Cluster Galaxy ◽

X Ray ◽

Groups Of Galaxies ◽

Star Forming ◽

The Core ◽

The Galaxy ◽

Multi Wavelength

AbstractXDCPJ0044.0-2033 is one of the most massive galaxy cluster at z ∼1.6, for which a wealth of multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic data have been collected during the last years. I have reported on the properties of the galaxy members in the very central region (∼ 70kpc × 70kpc) of the cluster, derived through deep HST photometry, SINFONI and KMOS IFU spectroscopy, together with Chandra X-ray, ALMA and JVLA radio data.In the core of the cluster, we have identified two groups of galaxies (Complex A and Complex B), seven of them confirmed to be cluster members, with signatures of ongoing merging. These galaxies show perturbed morphologies and, three of them show signs of AGN activity. In particular, two of them, located at the center of each complex, have been found to host luminous, obscured and highly accreting AGN (λ = 0.4−0.6) exhibiting broad Hα line. Moreover, a third optically obscured type-2 AGN, has been discovered through BPT diagram in Complex A. The AGN at the center of Complex B is detected in X-ray while the other two, and their companions, are spatially related to radio emission. The three AGN provide one of the closest AGN triple at z > 1 revealed so far with a minimum (maximum) projected distance of 10 kpc (40 kpc). The discovery of multiple AGN activity in a highly star-forming region associated to the crowded core of a galaxy cluster at z ∼ 1.6, suggests that these processes have a key role in shaping the nascent Brightest Cluster Galaxy, observed at the center of local clusters. According to our data, all galaxies in the core of XDCPJ0044.0-2033 could form a BCG of M* ∼ 1012Mȯ hosting a BH of 2 × 108−109Mȯ, in a time scale of the order of 2.5 Gyrs.

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DeepChandraobservation of the galaxy cluster WARPJ1415.1+3612 atz=1

Astronomy and Astrophysics ◽

10.1051/0004-6361/201118162 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 539 ◽

pp. A105 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

J. S. Santos ◽

P. Tozzi ◽

P. Rosati ◽

M. Nonino ◽

G. Giovannini

Keyword(s):

Galaxy Cluster ◽

The Galaxy

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Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – III. The impact of dynamical substructure on cluster mass estimates

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ◽

10.1093/mnras/stx3241 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 475 (1) ◽

pp. 853-866 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

L Old ◽

R Wojtak ◽

F R Pearce ◽

M E Gray ◽

G A Mamon ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Galaxy Cluster ◽

Cluster Mass ◽

Reconstruction Project ◽

The Impact ◽

Mass Reconstruction

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Anisotropy of the galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity–temperature relation

Astronomy and Astrophysics ◽

10.1051/0004-6361/201731222 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 611 ◽

pp. A50 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Konstantinos Migkas ◽

Thomas H. Reiprich

Keyword(s):

Galaxy Clusters ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Cosmological Parameters ◽

Galaxy Cluster ◽

Luminosity Distance ◽

Temperature Relation ◽

X Ray ◽

Two Samples ◽

The Galaxy ◽

Group A

We introduce a new test to study the cosmological principle with galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters exhibit a tight correlation between the luminosity and temperature of the X-ray-emitting intracluster medium. While the luminosity measurement depends on cosmological parameters through the luminosity distance, the temperature determination is cosmology-independent. We exploit this property to test the isotropy of the luminosity distance over the full extragalactic sky, through the normalization a of the LX–T scaling relation and the cosmological parameters Ωm and H0. To this end, we use two almost independent galaxy cluster samples: the ASCA Cluster Catalog (ACC) and the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS-DR1). Interestingly enough, these two samples appear to have the same pattern for a with respect to the Galactic longitude. More specifically, we identify one sky region within l ~ (−15°, 90°) (Group A) that shares very different best-fit values for the normalization of the LX–T relation for both ACC and XCS-DR1 samples. We use the Bootstrap and Jackknife methods to assess the statistical significance of these results. We find the deviation of Group A, compared to the rest of the sky in terms of a, to be ~2.7σ for ACC and ~3.1σ for XCS-DR1. This tension is not significantly relieved after excluding possible outliers and is not attributed to different redshift (z), temperature (T), or distributions of observable uncertainties. Moreover, a redshift conversion to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) frame does not have an important impact on our results. Using also the HIFLUGCS sample, we show that a possible excess of cool-core clusters in this region, is not able to explain the obtained deviations. Furthermore, we tested for a dependence of the results on supercluster environment, where the fraction of disturbed clusters might be enhanced, possibly affecting the LX–T relation. We indeed find a trend in the XCS-DR1 sample for supercluster members to be underluminous compared to field clusters. However, the fraction of supercluster members is similar in the different sky regions, so this cannot explain the observed differences, either. Constraining Ωm and H0 via the redshift evolution of LX–T and the luminosity distance via the flux–luminosity conversion, we obtain approximately the same deviation amplitudes as for a. It is interesting that the general observed behavior of Ωm for the sky regions that coincide with the CMB dipole is similar to what was found with other cosmological probes such as supernovae Ia. The reason for this behavior remains to be identified.

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