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most citedThe XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

272 citations · 1.2k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Mass Proxy Quality of Halo Properties in IllustrisTNG and FLAMINGO Simulations: II. Galaxies, Stars, and Black Holes

Eddie Aljamal, August E. Evrard, Arya Farahi +1

We study the stellar, black hole, and satellite galaxy populations of group- and cluster-scale halos in the IllustrisTNG, TNG-Cluster, and FLAMINGO cosmological hydrodynamical simu…

astro-ph.GA2026

LoVoCCS. III. Third Generation Pipeline & The Hercules Supercluster

Anthony M. Englert, Shenming Fu, Ian Dell'Antonio +29

The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS) is a volume-complete survey of over one-hundred nearby (), X-ray luminous ($L_{500} > 10^{44} \text{ erg s}^{-1}…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

From Interests to Insights: An LLM Approach to Course Recommendations Using Natural Language Queries

Hugh Van Deventer, Mark Mills, August Evrard

Most universities in the United States encourage their students to explore academic areas before declaring a major and to acquire academic breadth by satisfying a variety of requir…

astro-ph.CO2024

LoVoCCS. II. Weak Lensing Mass Distributions, Red-Sequence Galaxy Distributions, and Their Alignment with the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in 58 Nearby X-ray-Luminous Galaxy Clusters

Shenming Fu, Ian Dell'Antonio, Zacharias Escalante +31

The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS) is an on-going program to observe nearly a hundred low-redshift X-ray-luminous galaxy clusters (redshifts and X-ray…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Cosmic Dragons: A Two-Component Mixture Model of COSMOS Galaxies

William K. Black, August E. Evrard

Using the photometric population prediction method {\bf Red Dragon}, we characterize the Red Sequence (RS) and Blue Cloud (BC) of DES galaxies in the COSMOS field. Red Dragon (RD)…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 79 cited

The XXL Survey XXV. Cosmological analysis of the C1 cluster number counts

F. Pacaud, M. Pierre, J. -B. Melin +25

Context. We present an estimation of cosmological parameters with clusters of galaxies. Aims. We constrain the , , and parameters from a stand-alone sample of X-ray c…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 114 cited

Baryon Content in a Sample of 91 Galaxy Clusters Selected by the South Pole Telescope at 0.2 < z < 1.25

I. Chiu, J. J. Mohr, M. McDonald +89

We estimate total mass (), intracluster medium (ICM) mass () and stellar mass () in a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) selected sample of 91 ga…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

The XXL survey: first results and future

M. Pierre, C. Adami, M. Birkinshaw +108

The XXL survey currently covers two 25 sq. deg. patches with XMM observations of ~10ks. We summarise the scientific results associated with the first release of the XXL data set, t…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 143 cited

The XXL Survey. II. The bright cluster sample: catalogue and luminosity function

F. Pacaud, N. Clerc, P. A. Giles +40

Context. The XXL Survey is the largest survey carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite and covers a total area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields. It primarily aims at…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 121 cited

LoCuSS: Testing hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy clusters

G. P. Smith, P. Mazzotta, N. Okabe +17

We test the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium in an X-ray luminosity selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS).…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 6 cited

Hydrodynamic simulations of correlation and scatter in galaxy cluster maps

A. Finoguenov, A. J. R. Sanderson, J. J. Mohr +2

The two dimensional structure of hot gas in galaxy clusters contains information about the hydrodynamical state of the cluster, which can be used to understand the origin of scatte…

astro-ph2008★ 156 cited

The X-ray Cluster Normalization of the Matter Power Spectrum

J. Patrick Henry, August E. Evrard, Henk Hoekstra +2

The number density of galaxy clusters provides tight statistical constraints on the matter fluctuation power spectrum normalization, traditionally phrased in terms of sigma_8, the…

astro-ph2007★ 49 cited

Red Sequence Cluster Finding in the Millennium Simulation

J. D. Cohn, A. E. Evrard, M. White +2

We investigate halo mass selection properties of red-sequence cluster finders using galaxy populations of the Millennium Simulation (MS). A clear red sequence exists for MS galaxie…

astro-ph2000★ 149 cited

Clustering of Galaxy Clusters in CDM Universes

J. M. Colberg, S. D. M. White, N. Yoshida +9

We use very large cosmological N--body simulations to obtain accurate predictions for the two-point correlations and power spectra of mass-limited samples of galaxy clusters. We co…

astro-ph1999★ 114 cited

The Effects of Clumping and Substructure on ICM Mass Measurements

B. Mathiesen, A. E. Evrard, J. J. Mohr

We examine an ensemble of 48 simulated clusters to determine the effects of small-scale density fluctuations and large-scale substructure on X-ray measurements of the intracluster…

astro-ph1997

Simulations Of Galaxy Clusters With And Without Winds: I. The Structure Of Clusters

Christopher A. Metzler, August E. Evrard

We use gas dynamic simulations to explore the effects of galactic winds on galaxy clusters. Two ensembles of 18 realizations, spanning a decade in temperature, are evolved with and…