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astro-ph.CO2014★ 50 cited

Chandra deep observation of XDCP J0044.0-2033, a massive galaxy cluster at z>1.5

P. Tozzi, J. S. Santos, M. J. Jee +11

We report the analysis of the Chandra observation of XDCP J0044.0-2033, a massive, distant (z=1.579) galaxy cluster discovered in the XDCP survey. The total exposure time of 380 ks…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 61 cited

Evidence for the inside-out growth of the stellar mass distribution in galaxy clusters since z~1

Remco F. J. van der Burg, Henk Hoekstra, Adam Muzzin +3

We study the radial number density and stellar mass density distributions of satellite galaxies in a sample of 60 massive clusters at 0.04<z<0.26 selected from the Multi-Epoch Near…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 167 cited

GREAT3 results I: systematic errors in shear estimation and the impact of real galaxy morphology

Rachel Mandelbaum, Barnaby Rowe, Robert Armstrong +40

We present first results from the third GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) challenge, the third in a sequence of challenges for testing methods of inferring weak gravi…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 75 cited

Probing the galaxy-halo connection in UltraVISTA to

H. J. McCracken, M. Wolk, S. Colombi +10

We use percent-level precision photometric redshifts in the UltraVISTA-DR1 near-infrared survey to investigate the changing relationship be- tween galaxy stellar mass and the dark…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 12 cited

PRISM: Recovery of the primordial spectrum from Planck data

F. Lanusse, P. Paykari, J. -L. Starck +3

The primordial power spectrum describes the initial perturbations that seeded the large-scale structure we observe today. It provides an indirect probe of inflation or other struct…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 529 cited

Cosmology with cosmic shear observations: a review

Martin Kilbinger

Cosmic shear is the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Universe. Such images are coherently deformed by…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 28 cited

Probing WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data

Bradley J. Kavanagh, Mattia Fornasa, Anne M. Green

With positive signals from multiple direct detection experiments it will, in principle, be possible to measure the mass and cross sections of weakly-interacting massive particle (W…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 129 cited

Constraint on neutrino masses from SDSS-III/BOSS Ly forest and other cosmological probes

Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Christophe Yèche, Julien Lesgourgues +11

We present constraints on the parameters of the CDM cosmological model in the presence of massive neutrinos, using the one-dimensional Ly forest power spectrum obtained with…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 71 cited

A new model to predict weak-lensing peak counts I. Comparison with -body Simulations

Chieh-An Lin, Martin Kilbinger

Weak-lensing peak counts has been shown to be a powerful tool for cosmology. It provides non-Gaussian information of large scale structures, complementary to second order statistic…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 66 cited

Pressure distribution of the high-redshift cluster of galaxies CL J1226.9+3332 with NIKA

R. Adam, B. Comis, J. -F. Macías-Pérez +37

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is expected to provide a low scatter mass proxy for galaxy clusters since it is directly proportional to the cluster thermal energy. The…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 24 cited

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Statistical quality assessment of SZ detections

N. Aghanim, G. Hurier, J. -M. Diego +6

We examine three approaches to the problem of source classification in catalogues. Our goal is to determine the confidence with which the elements in these catalogues can be distin…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 333 cited

The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies

R. Brent Tully, Helene Courtois, Yehuda Hoffman +1

Galaxies congregate in clusters and along filaments, and are missing from large regions referred to as voids. These structures are seen in maps derived from spectroscopic surveys t…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 222 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +230

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 1…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 34 cited

CFHTLenS: A Weak Lensing Shear Analysis of the 3D-Matched-Filter Galaxy Clusters

Jes Ford, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Martha Milkeraitis +17

We present the cluster mass-richness scaling relation calibrated by a weak lensing analysis of >18000 galaxy cluster candidates in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 51 cited

The XMM-LSS survey: the Class 1 cluster sample over the extended 11 deg and its spatial distribution

N. Clerc, C. Adami, M. Lieu +10

This paper presents 52 X-ray bright galaxy clusters selected within the 11 deg XMM-LSS survey. 51 of them have spectroscopic redshifts (), one is identified at $z_…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Measuring cluster masses with CMB lensing: a statistical approach

Jean-Baptiste Melin, James G. Bartlett

We present a method for measuring the masses of galaxy clusters using the imprint of their gravitational lensing signal on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotr…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 57 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck clusters with the RTT150 telescope

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +194

We present the results of approximately three years of observations of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources with the Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope (RTT150), as a part of the opt…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 19 cited

LoCuSS: The Near-Infrared Luminosity and Weak-Lensing Mass Scaling Relation of Galaxy Clusters

Sarah L. Mulroy, Graham P. Smith, Chris P. Haines +7

We present the first scaling relation between weak-lensing galaxy cluster mass, , and near-infrared luminosity, . Our results are based on 17 clusters observed with wi…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 186 cited

CLASH-VLT: Insights on the mass substructures in the Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 through accurate strong lens modeling

C. Grillo, S. H. Suyu, P. Rosati +25

We present a detailed mass reconstruction and a novel study on the substructure properties in the core of the CLASH and Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. We show an…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 74 cited

LoCuSS: Hydrostatic Mass Measurements of the High- Cluster Sample -- Cross-calibration of Chandra and XMM-Newton

Rossella Martino, Pasquale Mazzotta, Hervé Bourdin +5

We present a consistent analysis of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of an approximately mass-selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at -- the "LoCuSS High- Sam…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 25 cited

3D galaxy clustering with future wide-field surveys: Advantages of a spherical Fourier-Bessel analysis

F. Lanusse, A. Rassat, J. -L. Starck

Upcoming spectroscopic galaxy surveys are extremely promising to help in addressing the major challenges of cosmology, in particular in understanding the nature of the dark univers…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 27 cited

Comparison of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements from Planck and from the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager for 99 galaxy clusters

Y. C. Perrott, M. Olamaie, C. Rumsey +39

We present observations and analysis of a sample of 123 galaxy clusters from the 2013 Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich sources with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI), a…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 45 cited

Planck CMB Anomalies: Astrophysical and Cosmological Secondary Effects and the Curse of Masking

A. Rassat, J. -L. Starck, P. Paykari +2

Large-scale anomalies have been reported in CMB data with both WMAP and Planck data. These could be due to foreground residuals and or systematic effects, though their confirmation…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 86 cited

IGM Constraints from the SDSS-III/BOSS DR9 Ly-alpha Forest Flux Probability Distribution Function

Khee-Gan Lee, Joseph P. Hennawi, David N. Spergel +13

The Ly forest transmission probability distribution function (PDF) is an established probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM) astrophysics, especially the temperature-density rel…