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most citedThe Hot and Energetic Universe: A White Paper presenting the science theme motivating the Athena+ mission

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astro-ph.CO2026

Dianoga simulations of galaxy clusters and groups: Properties of the baryonic components

Stefano Borgani, Alice Damiano, Elena Rasia +12

We introduce the Dianoga set of cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters and groups, specifically aimed at studying the impact of the implementation of AGN feedback and star for…

astro-ph.CO2026

Average soft X-ray surface brightness profile of massive galaxy clusters in Magneticum simulations

A. Kruglov, N. Lyskova, I. Khabibullin +2

The self-similar growth of massive galaxy clusters suggests that radial profiles of their key thermodynamic properties should have identical shapes after proper mass- and redshift-…

astro-ph.CO2026

Baryonic assembly bias in X-ray-selected galaxy groups and clusters: insights from the Magneticum simulation

Ilaria Marini, Tiago Castro, Paola Popesso +5

Galaxy groups and clusters trace the large-scale matter distribution, with their clustering usually interpreted mainly as a function of halo mass. Yet, at fixed mass, their baryoni…

astro-ph.CO2026

CHEX-MATE: Are we getting cluster thermodynamics right?

R. Seppi, D. Eckert, E. Rasia +19

Galaxy clusters offer powerful insights into the large-scale structure of the Universe and the physics of baryons in hot state. Their scientific exploitation, however, hinges on ou…

astro-ph.CO2026

Bulk and turbulent gas motions in the interacting galaxy cluster Abell 3395 South observed with XRISM

Naomi Ota, Angie Veronica, Jakob Dietl +8

We investigate the gas motions in the core region of the Abell~3395 South subcluster (A3395S) using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM/Resolve. By analyzing the Fe~XXV H…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Turbulence in Simulated Local Cluster Analogs: One-to-one comparisons between SLOW and XRISM/Hitomi

Frederick Groth, Milena Valentini, Benjamin A. Seidel +4

The XRISM Resolve X-ray spectrometer allows to gain detailed insight into gas motions of the intra cluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. Current simulation studies focus mainly…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

The Three Hundred Project: Modeling Baryon and Hot-Gas Fraction Evolution in Simulated Clusters

Elena Rasia, Roberta Tripodi, Stefano Borgani +8

The baryon fraction of galaxy clusters is a powerful tool to inform on the cosmological parameters while the hot-gas fraction provides indications on the physics of the intracluste…

astro-ph.CO2025

The full iron budget in simulated galaxy clusters: The chemistry between gas and stars

Veronica Biffi, Elena Rasia, Stefano Borgani +5

Heavy chemical elements such as iron in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters are a signpost of the interaction between the gas and stellar components. Observations of…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Encyclopedia Magneticum: Scaling Relations from Cosmic Dawn to Present Day

Klaus Dolag, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Lucas M. Valenzuela +10

Galaxy and halo scaling relations, connecting a broad range of parameters, are well established from observations. The origin of many of these relations and their scatter is still…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 8 cited

How the cool-core population transitions from galaxy groups to massive clusters: A comparison of the largest Magneticum simulation with eROSITA, XMM-Newton, Chandra and LOFAR observations

Justo Antonio Gonzalez Villalba, Klaus Dolag, Veronica Biffi

Our aim is to understand how the interplay between AGN feedback and merge processes can effectively turn cool-core galaxy clusters into hot-core clusters in the modern universe. Ad…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Average energy of the X-ray spectrum as a model-independent proxy for the mass of galaxy clusters

A. Kruglov, I. Khabibullin, N. Lyskova +2

Temperature of the hot gas in galaxy clusters is known to be a reliable proxy for their total gravitating mass, allowing one to use spectroscopic X-ray observations for halo mass f…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 20 cited

Detecting Galaxy Groups and AGNs populating the local Universe in the eROSITA era

I. Marini, P. Popesso, G. Lamer +14

The eROSITA will deliver an unprecedented volume of X-ray survey observations, 20-30 times more sensitive than ROSAT in the soft band (0.5-2 keV) and for the first time imaging in…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 20 cited

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: Constraints on AGN Feedback in Galaxy Groups

Y. E. Bahar, E. Bulbul, V. Ghirardini +25

We investigate the impact of AGN feedback, on the entropy and characteristic temperature measurements of galaxy groups detected in the SRG/eROSITA's first All-Sky Survey (eRASS1) t…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 20 cited

The eROSITA view of the Abell 3391/95 field: Cluster Outskirts and Filaments

Angie Veronica, Thomas H. Reiprich, Florian Pacaud +17

Aims. We aim to characterize the gas properties in the cluster outskirts () and in the detected inter-cluster filaments () of the A3391/95 system and t…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 38 cited

Offset between X-ray and optical centers in clusters of galaxies: connecting eROSITA data and simulations

R. Seppi, J. Comparat, K. Nandra +6

The characterization of the dynamical state of clusters is key to study their evolution, their selection, and use them as a cosmological probe. The offsets between different defini…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 19 cited

Effects of Multiphase Gas and Projection on X-ray Observables in Simulated Galaxy Clusters as Seen by eROSITA

J. ZuHone, Y. E. Bahar, V. Biffi +8

The number density of galaxy clusters as a function of mass and redshift is a sensitive function of the cosmological parameters. To use clusters for cosmological parameter studies,…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 13 cited

Hydrostatic Mass Profiles of Galaxy Clusters in the eROSITA Survey

Dominik Scheck, Jeremy S. Sanders, Veronica Biffi +3

To assume hydrostatic equilibrium between the intracluster medium and the gravitational potential of galaxy clusters is an extensively used method to investigate their total masses…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 15 cited

The Hateful Eight: Connecting Massive Substructures in Galaxy Clusters like Abell 2744 to their Dynamical Assembly State using the Magneticum Simulations

Lucas C. Kimmig, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Klaus Dolag +1

Substructures are known to be good tracers for the dynamical states and recent accretion histories of the most massive collapsed structures in the Universe, galaxy clusters. Observ…

astro-ph.CO2022

CHEX-MATE: Morphological analysis of the sample

Maria Giulia Campitiello, Stefano Ettori, Lorenzo Lovisari +17

In this work, we performed an analysis of the X-ray morphology of the 118 CHEX-MATE (Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton - Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

The velocity structure of the intracluster medium during a major merger: simulated microcalorimeter observations

Veronica Biffi, John A. ZuHone, Tony Mroczkowski +2

Major mergers between galaxy clusters can produce large turbulent and bulk flow velocities in the intra-cluster medium and thus imprint diagnostic features in X-ray spectral emissi…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 6 cited

Exploring the role of cosmological shock waves in the Dianoga simulations of galaxy clusters

Susana Planelles, Stefano Borgani, Vicent Quilis +6

Cosmological shock waves are ubiquitous to cosmic structure formation and evolution. As a consequence, they play a major role in the energy distribution and thermalization of the i…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 133 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Catalog of galaxy clusters and groups

A. Liu, E. Bulbul, V. Ghirardini +31

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey has been carried out during the PV phase of the SRG/eROSITA telescope and completed in November 2019. This survey is designed to provide t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 34 cited

The eROSITA view of the Abell 3391/95 field: a case study from the Magneticum cosmological simulation

Veronica Biffi, Klaus Dolag, Thomas H. Reiprich +5

We investigated the origin and gas properties of a simulated galaxy cluster pair, to connect simulation predictions to the SRG/eROSITA X-ray observations of the Abell 3391/95 field…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 43 cited

The metal content of the hot atmospheres of galaxy groups

Fabio Gastaldello, Aurora Simionescu, Francois Mernier +4

Galaxy groups host the majority of matter and more than half of all the galaxies in the Universe. Their hot ( K), X-ray emitting intra-group medium (IGrM) reveals emission li…