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most citedPlanck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters

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astro-ph.CO2014★ 127 cited

On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy

Michael Zemcov, Joseph Smidt, Toshiaki Arai +13

Extragalactic background light (EBL) anisotropy traces variations in the total production of photons over cosmic history, and may contain faint, extended components missed in galax…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 12 cited

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in MACS J0647.7+7015 and MACS J1206.2-0847 at High Angular Resolution with MUSTANG

Alexander H. Young, Tony Mroczkowski, Charles Romero +18

We present high resolution (9) imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) toward two massive galaxy clusters, MACS J0647.7+7015 () and MACS J1206.2-0…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 283 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Combined Strong and Weak Lensing Analysis of the CLASH Sample: Mass and Magnification Models and Systematic Uncertainties

Adi Zitrin, Agnese Fabris, Julian Merten +23

We present results from a comprehensive lensing analysis in HST data, of the complete CLASH cluster sample. We identify new multiple-images previously undiscovered allowing improve…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 19 cited

Radio Monitoring Campaigns of Six Strongly Lensed Quasars

N. Rumbaugh, C. D. Fassnacht, J. P. McKean +3

We observed six strongly lensed, radio-loud quasars (MG 0414+0534, CLASS B0712+472, JVAS B1030+074, CLASS B1127+385, CLASS B1152+199, and JVAS B1938+666) in order to identify syste…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 30 cited

Comparing gravitational redshifts of SDSS galaxy clusters with the magnification redshift enhancement of background BOSS galaxies

Pablo Jimeno, Tom Broadhurst, Jean Coupon +2

A clean measurement of the evolution of the galaxy cluster mass function can significantly improve our understanding of cosmology from the rapid growth of cluster masses below z <…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 1 cited

CFHTLenS: Weak lensing calibrated scaling relations for low mass clusters of galaxies

K. Kettula, S. Giodini, E. van Uitert +24

We present weak lensing and X-ray analysis of 12 low mass clusters from the CFHTLenS and XMM-CFHTLS surveys. We combine these systems with high-mass systems from CCCP and low-mass…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 1 cited

Measuring angular diameter distances of strong gravitational lenses

Inh Jee, Eiichiro Komatsu, Sherry H. Suyu

The distance-redshift relation plays a fundamental role in constraining cosmological models. In this paper, we show that measurements of positions and time delays of strongly lense…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 3 cited

Inferring Host Dark Matter Halo Masses of Individual Galaxies from Neighboring Galaxy Counts

Masamune Oguri, Yen-Ting Lin

How well can we infer host dark matter halo masses of individual galaxies? Based on the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework, we analytically compute the number of neighbor…

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★ 35 cited

Universal Profiles of the Intracluster Medium from Suzaku X-Ray and Subaru Weak Lensing Obesrvations

N. Okabe, K. Umetsu, T. Tamura +16

We conduct a joint X-ray and weak-lensing study of four relaxed galaxy clusters (Hydra A, A478, A1689 and A1835) observed by both Suzaku and Subaru out to virial radii, with an aim…

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★ 29 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey - Searching for Cosmic Voids

D. Micheletti, A. Iovino, A. J. Hawken +46

The characterisation of cosmic voids gives unique information about the large-scale distribution of galaxies, their evolution and the cosmological model. We identify and characteri…

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★ 22 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Measuring nonlinear galaxy bias at z~0.8

C. Di Porto, E. Branchini, J. Bel +46

We use the first release of the VImos Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey of galaxies (VIPERS) of ~50,000 objects to measure the biasing relation between galaxies and mass in the…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 59 cited

Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations between Bolocam Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Chandra X-ray Measurements

N. G. Czakon, J. Sayers, A. Mantz +11

We present scaling relations between the integrated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) signal, , its X-ray analogue, , and total mass…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 130 cited

CLASH-X: A Comparison of Lensing and X-ray Techniques for Measuring the Mass Profiles of Galaxy Clusters

Megan Donahue, G. Mark Voit, Andisheh Mahdavi +35

We present profiles of temperature (Tx), gas mass, and hydrostatic mass estimated from new and archival X-ray observations of CLASH clusters. We compare measurements derived from X…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 150 cited

The MUSIC of CLASH: predictions on the concentration-mass relation

M. Meneghetti, E. Rasia, J. Vega +42

We present the results of a numerical study based on the analysis of the MUSIC-2 simulations, aimed at estimating the expected concentration-mass relation for the CLASH cluster sam…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 218 cited

CLASH: The Concentration-Mass Relation of Galaxy Clusters

J. Merten, M. Meneghetti, M. Postman +38

We present a new determination of the concentration-mass relation for galaxy clusters based on our comprehensive lensing analysis of 19 X-ray selected galaxy clusters from the Clus…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 282 cited

CLASH: Weak-Lensing Shear-and-Magnification Analysis of 20 Galaxy Clusters

Keiichi Umetsu, Elinor Medezinski, Mario Nonino +21

We present a joint shear-and-magnification weak-lensing analysis of a sample of 16 X-ray-regular and 4 high-magnification galaxy clusters at 0.19<z<0.69 selected from the Cluster L…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 27 cited

The Effects of Varying Cosmological Parameters on Halo Substructure

Gregory A. Dooley, Brendan F. Griffen, Phillip Zukin +4

We investigate how different cosmological parameters, such as those delivered by the WMAP and Planck missions, affect the nature and evolution of dark matter halo substructure. We…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 25 cited

The Properties of Hα Emission-Line Galaxies at z = 2.24

F. X. An, X. Z. Zheng, W. -H. Wang +9

Using deep narrow-band and -band imaging data obtained with CFHT/WIRCam, we identify a sample of 56 H emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at with the 5 dept…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 89 cited

Intra Cluster Light properties in the CLASH-VLT cluster MACS J1206.2-0847

V. Presotto, M. Girardi, M. Nonino +46

We aim at constraining the assembly history of clusters by studying the intra cluster light (ICL) properties, estimating its contribution to the fraction of baryons in stars, f*, a…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 47 cited

A Free-Form Lensing Grid Solution for A1689 with New Mutiple Images

Jose M. Diego, T. Broadhurst, N. Benitez +6

Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 has revealed an exceptional number of strongly lensed multiply-imaged galaxies, including high-redshift candidates.…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 22 cited

CLASH: Extending galaxy strong lensing to small physical scales with distant sources highly-magnified by galaxy cluster members

C. Grillo, R. Gobat, V. Presotto +35

We present a strong lensing system in which a double source is imaged 5 times by 2 early-type galaxies. We take advantage in this target of the multi-band photometry obtained as pa…