Publications (42)
Thermodynamic Profiles of Galaxy Clusters from a Joint X-ray/SZ Analysis
Jennifer A. Shitanishi, Elena Pierpaoli, Jack Sayers +6
We jointly analyze Bolocam Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and Chandra X-ray data for a set of 45 clusters to derive gas density and temperature profiles without using spectroscopic…
SPT-CL J0417-4748: A Deep Chandra Study of a Relaxed Galaxy Cluster Without Central Star Formation
Taweewat Somboonpanyakul, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen +7
We present an in-depth Chandra X-ray analysis of the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J04174748 (hereafter SPT J0417), at z = 0.58, with a focus on its thermodynamic properties and the app…
SPT-CL J2215-3537: A Massive Starburst at the Center of the Most Distant Relaxed Galaxy Cluster
Michael S. Calzadilla, Lindsey E. Bleem, Michael McDonald +14
We present the discovery of the most distant, dynamically relaxed cool core cluster, SPT-CL J2215-3537 (SPT2215) and its central brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) at z=1.16. Using new…
Chandra measurements of gas homogeneity and turbulence at intermediate radii in the Perseus Cluster
Martijn de Vries, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen +6
We present a Chandra study of surface brightness fluctuations in the diffuse intracluster medium of the Perseus Cluster. Our study utilizes deep, archival imaging of the cluster co…
The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: MOO J1142+1527, A 10 M Galaxy Cluster at z=1.19
Anthony H. Gonzalez, Bandon Decker, Mark Brodwin +19
We present confirmation of the cluster MOO J1142+1527, a massive galaxy cluster discovered as part of the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. The cluster is confirmed to l…
Optical Photometric Indicators of Galaxy Cluster Relaxation
Madeline C. Casas, Ky Putnam, Adam B. Mantz +2
The most dynamically relaxed clusters of galaxies play a special role in cosmological studies as well as astrophysical studies of the intracluster medium (ICM) and active galactic…
The XXL Survey: XVII. X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Properties of the Redshift 2.0 Galaxy Cluster XLSSC 122
Adam B. Mantz, Zubair Abdulla, Steven W. Allen +7
We present results from a 100 ks XMM-Newton observation of galaxy cluster XLSSC 122, the first massive cluster discovered through its X-ray emission at . The data provid…
Cosmological Parameters from Observations of Galaxy Clusters
Steven W. Allen, August E. Evrard, Adam B. Mantz
Studies of galaxy clusters have proved crucial in helping to establish the standard model of cosmology, with a universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. A theoretical basi…
The XXL Survey V: Detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the Redshift 1.9 Galaxy Cluster XLSSU J021744.1-034536 with CARMA
Adam B. Mantz, Zubair Abdulla, John E. Carlstrom +14
We report the detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of galaxy cluster XLSSU J021744.1-034536, using 30 GHz CARMA data. This cluster was discovered via its extended X-ray…
Constraints on the Thermal Contents of the X-ray Cavities of Cluster MS 0735.6+7421 with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Observations
Zubair Abdulla, John E. Carlstrom, Adam B. Mantz +8
Outbursts from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can inflate cavities in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters and are believed to play the primary role in offsetting radiati…
Deep Chandra Observations of the z = 1.16 Relaxed, Cool-core Galaxy Cluster SPT-CL J2215-3537
Haley R. Stueber, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen +10
Galaxy clusters serve as a unique and valuable laboratory for probing cosmological models and understanding astrophysics at the high-mass limit of structure formation. Clusters tha…
Center-Excised X-ray Luminosity as an Efficient Mass Proxy for Future Galaxy Cluster Surveys
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +1
The cosmological constraining power of modern galaxy cluster catalogs can be improved by obtaining low-scatter mass proxy measurements for even a small fraction of sources. In the…
Cold dark energy constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters
Caroline Heneka, David Rapetti, Matteo Cataneo +3
We constrain cold dark energy of negligible sound speed using galaxy cluster abundance observations. In contrast to standard quasi-homogeneous dark energy, negligible sound speed i…
A Gibbs Sampler for Multivariate Linear Regression
Adam B. Mantz
Kelly (2007, hereafter K07) described an efficient algorithm, using Gibbs sampling, for performing linear regression in the fairly general case where non-zero measurement errors ex…
Cosmology and Astrophysics from Relaxed Galaxy Clusters II: Cosmological Constraints
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +5
We present cosmological constraints from measurements of the gas mass fraction, , for massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Our data set consists of Chandra observ…
Clusters Hiding Under Millimeter Sources (CHUMS) I: Extreme CHUMS
Harshda Saxena, Adam B. Mantz, Jack Sayers +2
Galaxy cluster abundance provides a powerful probe of the CDM model and enables precise constraints on cosmological parameters. Millimeter-wavelength surveys detect clusters th…
New constraints on gravity from clusters of galaxies
Matteo Cataneo, David Rapetti, Fabian Schmidt +6
The abundance of massive galaxy clusters is a powerful probe of departures from General Relativity (GR) on cosmic scales. Despite current stringent constraints placed by stellar an…
The Cluster Evolutionary Reference Ensemble at Low- (CEREAL) Sample of Galaxy Clusters I: X-ray Morphological Properties and Demographics
Laurel White, Michael McDonald, Steven W. Allen +8
With rapid improvements in the assembly of large samples of galaxy clusters, we are approaching the ability to study clusters at . Evolutionary studies comparing these d…
Deep XMM-Newton Observations of the Most Distant SPT-SZ Galaxy Cluster
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +5
We present results from a 577 ks XMM-Newton observation of SPT-CL J0459-4947, the most distant cluster detected in the South Pole Telescope 2500 square degree (SPT-SZ) survey, and…
A Comparison and Joint Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Measurements from Planck and Bolocam for a set of 47 Massive Galaxy Clusters
Jack Sayers, Sunil R. Golwala, Adam B. Mantz +7
We measure the SZ signal toward a set of 47 clusters with a median mass of M and a median redshift of 0.40 using data from Planck and the ground-base…
Cosmology and Astrophysics from Relaxed Galaxy Clusters V: Consistency with Cold Dark Matter Structure Formation
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris
This is the fifth in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Our sample comprises 40 clusters identified as bein…
The History of Metal Enrichment Traced by X-ray Observations of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters
Anthony M. Flores, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen +7
We present the analysis of deep X-ray observations of 10 massive galaxy clusters at redshifts , with the primary goal of measuring the metallicity of the intraclus…
Improved Cosmological Constraints from SDSS redMaPPer Clusters via X-ray Follow-up of a Complete Subsample of Systems
Matthew Kirby, Eduardo Rozo, R. Glenn Morris +7
We improve upon the cosmological constraints derived from the abundance and weak-lensing data of redMaPPer clusters detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Specifically, w…
Ruminations Upon the Modeling of X-ray Foregrounds, Backgrounds and Faint Sources
Adam B. Mantz, Anthony M. Flores, Taweewat Somboonpanyakul +4
With the goal of extracting as much information as possible from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of faint, diffuse sources such as galaxy clusters, as well as those of future X…
Coping with Selection Effects: A Primer on Regression with Truncated Data
Adam B. Mantz
The finite sensitivity of instruments or detection methods means that data sets in many areas of astronomy, for example cosmological or exoplanet surveys, are necessarily systemati…
Cosmological Constraints from Gas Mass Fractions of Massive, Relaxed Galaxy Clusters
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, Rebecca E. A. Canning +14
We present updated cosmological constraints from measurements of the gas mass fractions () of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Our new data set has greater le…
Multiwavelength Characterization of a Dynamically Relaxed Cool Core Galaxy Cluster at
Anthony M. Flores, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen +5
We present imaging and spectroscopic analyses of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of ACT-CL J0123.50428, one of the most massive, highest redshift galaxy clusters detected wi…
"SZ spectroscopy" in the coming decade: Galaxy cluster cosmology and astrophysics in the submillimeter
Kaustuv Basu, Jens Erler, Jens Chluba +30
Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effects were first proposed in the 1970s as tools to identify the X-ray emitting hot gas inside massive clusters of galaxies and obtain their velocities rela…
The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. I: Survey Overview and a Catalog of >2000 Galaxy Clusters at z~1
Anthony H. Gonzalez, Daniel P. Gettings, Mark Brodwin +23
We present the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS), a search for galaxy clusters at 0.7<z<1.5 based upon data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)…
The Concentration-Mass Relation of Massive, Dynamically Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Agreement Between Observations and CDM Simulations
Elise Darragh-Ford, Adam B. Mantz, Elena Rasia +5
The relationship linking a galaxy cluster's total mass with the concentration of its mass profile and its redshift is a fundamental prediction of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradig…
Measuring using X-ray and SZ effect observations of dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters
Jenny T. Wan, Adam B. Mantz, Jack Sayers +3
We use a sample of 14 massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters to constrain the Hubble Constant, , by combining X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals measured w…
The Metallicity of the Intracluster Medium Over Cosmic Time: Further Evidence for Early Enrichment
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +4
We use Chandra X-ray data to measure the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) in 245 massive galaxy clusters selected from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect surveys,…
Weighing the Giants IV: Cosmology and Neutrino Mass
Adam B. Mantz, Anja von der Linden, Steven W. Allen +14
We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray se…
Measurement of the Relativistic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Corrections in RX J1347.5-1145
Victoria Butler, Richard M. Feder, Tansu Daylan +8
We present a measurement of the relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect spectrum, the rSZ effect, toward the massive galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 b…
Cosmology and Astrophysics from Relaxed Galaxy Clusters I: Sample Selection
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +3
This is the first in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Here we present a new, automated method for identif…
The Future Landscape of High-Redshift Galaxy Cluster Science
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, Nicholas Battaglia +6
Modern galaxy cluster science is a multi-wavelength endeavor with cornerstones provided by X-ray, optical/IR, mm, and radio measurements. In combination, these observations enable…
Ellipticity of Brightest Cluster Galaxies as tracer of halo orientation and weak-lensing mass bias
Ricardo Herbonnet, Anja von der Linden, Steve W. Allen +4
Weak-lensing measurements of the masses of galaxy clusters are commonly based on the assumption of spherically symmetric density profiles. Yet, the cold dark matter model predicts…
RNDR noise modeling in first-generation Single electron Sensitive Readout (SiSeRO) devices
Tonya L. Peshel, Abigail Y. Pan, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay +18
Flagship observatories require single-photon detectors with ultra-fast readout, sub-electron noise performance, and scalable large-format architectures. The X-ray Astronomy and Obs…
The Evolution and Mass Dependence of Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles at 0.05 0.60 and M M
Jack Sayers, Adam B. Mantz, Elena Rasia +5
We have combined X-ray observations from Chandra with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data from Planck and Bolocam to measure intra-cluster medium pressure profiles from 0.03R$_{500…
A Generative Model for Realistic Galaxy Cluster X-ray Morphologies
Maya Benyas, Jordan Pfeifer, Adam B. Mantz +2
The X-ray morphologies of clusters of galaxies display significant variations, reflecting their dynamical histories and the nonlinear dependence of X-ray emissivity on the density…
Weighing the Giants V: Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +6
We present constraints on the scaling relations of galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity, temperature and gas mass (and derived quantities) with mass and redshift, employing masses from…
Cosmology and Astrophysics from Relaxed Galaxy Clusters III: Thermodynamic Profiles and Scaling Relations
Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris +1
This is the third in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Our sample comprises 40 clusters identified as bein…