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most citedCluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview

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astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

RELICS: A Very Large () Cluster Lens -- RXC J0032.1+1808

Ana Acebron, Adi Zitrin, Dan Coe +38

Extensive surveys with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) over the past decade, targeting some of the most massive clusters in the sky, have uncovered dozens of galaxy-clust…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 210 cited

RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Dan Coe, Brett Salmon, Marusa Bradac +54

Large surveys of galaxy clusters with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, including CLASH and the Frontier Fields, have demonstrated the power of strong gravitational lensing…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 39 cited

RELICS: Strong Lensing Analysis of MACS J0417.5-1154 and Predictions for Observing the Magnified High-Redshift Universe with JWST

Guillaume Mahler, Keren Sharon, Carter Fox +37

Strong gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies probes the mass distribution at the core of each cluster and magnifies the universe behind it. MACS J0417.5-1154 at z=0.443 is…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 22 cited

RELICS: High-Resolution Constraints on the Inner Mass Distribution of the z=0.83 Merging Cluster RXJ0152.7-1357 from strong lensing

Ana Acebron, May Alon, Adi Zitrin +37

Strong gravitational lensing (SL) is a powerful means to map the distribution of dark matter. In this work, we perform a SL analysis of the prominent X-ray cluster RXJ0152.7-1357 (…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 29 cited

RELICS: Strong-lensing analysis of the massive clusters MACS J0308.9+2645 and PLCK G171.9-40.7

Ana Acebron, Nathália Cibirka, Adi Zitrin +37

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters has become a powerful tool for probing the high-redshift Universe, magnifying distant and faint background galaxies. Reliable strong…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 28 cited

RELICS: A Strong Lens Model for SPT-CLJ0615-5746, a z=0.972 Cluster

Rachel Paterno-Mahler, Keren Sharon, Dan Coe +30

We present a lens model for the cluster SPT-CLJ06155746, which is the highest redshift () system in the Reionization of Lensing Clusters Survey (RELICS), making it the…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 28 cited

RELICS: Strong Lensing analysis of the galaxy clusters Abell S295, Abell 697, MACS J0025.4-1222, and MACS J0159.8-0849

Nathália Cibirka, Ana Acebron, Adi Zitrin +37

We present a strong-lensing analysis of four massive galaxy clusters imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey. We use a Light-Traces-Mass t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 72 cited

RELICS: Strong Lens Models for Five Galaxy Clusters From the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Catherine Cerny, Keren Sharon, Felipe Andrade-Santos +31

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters magnifies background galaxies, enhancing our ability to discover statistically significant samples of galaxies at z>6, in order to c…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 134 cited

The bright-star masks for the HSC-SSP survey

Jean Coupon, Nicole Czakon, James Bosch +4

We present the procedure to build and validate the bright-star masks for the Hyper-Suprime-Cam Strategic Subaru Proposal (HSC-SSP) survey. To identify and mask the saturated stars…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 241 cited

The first-year shear catalog of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey

Rachel Mandelbaum, Hironao Miyatake, Takashi Hamana +28

We present and characterize the catalog of galaxy shape measurements that will be used for cosmological weak lensing measurements in the Wide layer of the first year of the Hyper S…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 54 cited

CLASH: Accurate Photometric Redshifts with 14 HST bands in Massive Galaxy Cluster Cores

A. Molino, N. Benítez, B. Ascaso +41

We present accurate photometric redshifts for galaxies observed by the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). CLASH observed 25 massive galaxy cluster cores with…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 30 cited

Constraints on the Mass, Concentration, and Nonthermal Pressure Support of Six CLASH Clusters from a Joint Analysis of X-ray, SZ, and Lensing Data

Seth R. Siegel, Jack Sayers, Andisheh Mahdavi +17

We present a joint analysis of Chandra X-ray observations, Bolocam thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect observations, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) strong lensing data, and HST an…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 32 cited

Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles as Determined by Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam II: Joint Analysis of Fourteen Clusters

Charles Romero, Brian Mason, Jack Sayers +13

We present pressure profiles of galaxy clusters determined from high resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect observations of fourteen clusters, which span the redshift range $ 0.…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 78 cited

The Morphologies and Alignments of Gas, Mass, and the Central Galaxies of CLASH Clusters of Galaxies

Megan Donahue, Stefano Ettori, Elena Rasia +10

Morphology is often used to infer the state of relaxation of galaxy clusters. The regularity, symmetry, and degree to which a cluster is centrally concentrated inform quantitative…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 25 cited

Peculiar Velocity Constraints from Five-Band SZ Effect Measurements Towards RX J1347.5-1145 with MUSIC and Bolocam from the CSO

Jack Sayers, Michael Zemcov, Jason Glenn +25

We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements from wide-field images towards the galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 obtained from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory with th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 23 cited

Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles as Determined by Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam I: Joint Analysis Technique

Charles Romero, Brian S. Mason, Jack Sayers +11

We present a technique to constrain galaxy cluster pressure profiles by jointly fitting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) data obtained with MUSTANG and Bolocam for the clusters Abel…

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★ 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★ 36 cited

CLASH-VLT: Constraints on the Dark Matter Equation of State from Accurate Measurements of Galaxy Cluster Mass Profiles

Barbara Sartoris, Andrea Biviano, Piero Rosati +39

A pressureless scenario for the Dark Matter (DM) fluid is a widely adopted hypothesis, despite the absence of a direct observational evidence. According to general relativity, the…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 105 cited

A Measurement of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Signal Toward MACS J0717.5+3745

Jack Sayers, Tony Mroczkowski, Michael Zemcov +18

We report our analysis of MACS J0717.5+3745 using 140 and 268 GHz Bolocam data collected at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. We detect extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect…