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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.HE2024★ 371 cited

The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey: First X-ray catalogues and data release of the western Galactic hemisphere

A. Merloni, G. Lamer, T. Liu +142

The eROSITA telescope array aboard the Spektrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite began surveying the sky in December 2019, with the aim of producing all-sky X-ray source lists and sk…

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

CODEX: Role of velocity substructure in the scaling relations of galaxy clusters

S. Damsted, A. Finoguenov, N. Clerc +7

The use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes relies on a detailed understanding of their properties. We aim to update the spectroscopic cluster identification of CODEX by runn…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Dynamical properties and detectability of the magneto-thermal instability in the intracluster medium

Jean M. Kempf, Francois Rincon, Nicolas Clerc

Context. Amongst many plasma processes potentially relevant to the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM), turbulence driven at observable scales by internal magnetised buoyancy…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 78 cited

Tormund's return: Hints of quasi-periodic eruption features from a recent optical tidal disruption event

E. Quintin, N. A. Webb, S. Guillot +8

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating thermal X-ray bursts associated with accreting massive black holes, the precise underlying physical mechanisms of which are still uncl…

astro-ph.CO2023

The X-ray invisible Universe. A look into the halos undetected by eROSITA

P. Popesso, A. Biviano, E. Bulbul +15

The paper presents the analysis of optically selected GAMA groups and clusters in the SRG/eROSITA X-ray map of eFEDS (eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey), in the halo mass range…

astro-ph.CO2022

X-IFU/Athena view of the most distant galaxy clusters in the Universe

Florent Castellani, N. Clerc, Etienne Pointecouteau +2

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on-board the second large ESA mission ''Athena'' will be a high spatial (5'') and spectral (2.5eV) resolution X-ray imaging spectrometer, oper…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder +296

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile ob…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 52 cited

Detecting clusters of galaxies and active galactic nuclei in an eROSITA all-sky survey digital twin

R. Seppi, J. Comparat, E. Bulbul +15

The extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory is revolutionizing X-ray astronomy. It provides large s…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 7 cited

The XXL Survey: XLVIII; X-ray follow-up of distant XXL clusters: Masses, scaling relations and AGN contamination

R. T. Duffy, C. H. A. Logan, B. J. Maughan +10

We use deep follow-up XMM-Newton observations of 6 clusters discovered in the XXL Survey at to gain robust measurements of their X-ray properties and to investigate the exten…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 7 cited

X-ray cluster cosmology

Nicolas Clerc, Alexis Finoguenov

Formation of dark matter halos is sensitive to the expansion rate of the Universe and to the growth of structures under gravitational collapse. Virialization of halos heats the gas…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 1 cited

Characterizing the bulk and turbulent gas motions in galaxy clusters

Simon Dupourqué, Etienne Pointecouteau, Nicolas Clerc +1

The most massive halos of matter in the Universe grow via accretion and merger events throughout cosmic times. These violent processes generate shocks at many scales and induce lar…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 57 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): X-ray Properties and Scaling Relations of Galaxy Clusters and Groups

Y. Emre Bahar, Esra Bulbul, Nicolas Clerc +16

We investigate the scaling relations between X-ray observables of the clusters detected in the eFEDS field using Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma/eROSITA observations taking into account th…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 36 cited

The XXL survey: XLVI. Forward cosmological analysis of the C1 cluster sample

Christian Garrel, Marguerite Pierre, Patrick Valageas +15

We present the forward cosmological analysis of an selected sample of galaxy clusters out to a redshift of unity. Following our previous 2018 study based on the dn/dz quantit…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 15 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): A complete census of X-ray properties of Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam weak lensing shear-selected clusters in the eFEDS footprint

Miriam E. Ramos-Ceja, M. Oguri, S. Miyazaki +23

The eFEDS survey is a proof-of-concept mini-survey designed to demonstrate the survey science capabilities of SRG/eROSITA. It covers an area of 140 square degrees where 542 galaxy…

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★ 75 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): X-ray Observable-to-Mass-and-Redshift Relations of Galaxy Clusters and Groups with Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Survey

I-Non Chiu, Vittorio Ghirardini, Ang Liu +18

We present the first weak-lensing mass calibration and X-ray scaling relations of galaxy clusters and groups selected in the Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS) observe…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 41 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Optical confirmation, redshifts, and properties of the cluster and group catalog

M. Klein, M. Oguri, J. J. Mohr +19

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), covering ~140 square degrees, was performed as part of the performance verification phase of the eROSITA telescope on board of th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 32 cited

Establishing the X-ray Source Detection Strategy for eROSITA with Simulations

Teng Liu, Andrea Merloni, Johan Comparat +25

The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite has started to detect new X-ray sources over the full sky at an unprecedented rate. Understanding t…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 360 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS): The X-ray catalog

H. Brunner, T. Liu, G. Lamer +35

Context. The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory combines a large field of view and collecting area in the energy range 0.2 to $\si…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 40 cited

The X-CLASS survey: A catalogue of 1646 X-ray-selected galaxy clusters up to z1.5

E. Koulouridis, N. Clerc, T. Sadibekova +25

Cosmological probes based on galaxy clusters rely on cluster number counts and large-scale structure information. X-ray cluster surveys are well suited for this purpose, since they…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 13 cited

Gravitational redshifting of galaxies in the SPIDERS cluster catalogue

C. T. Mpetha, C. A. Collins, N. Clerc +10

Data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) are searched for a detection of the gravitational redshifting of light from galaxies in $\si…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 30 cited

SPIDERS: An Overview of The Largest Catalogue of Spectroscopically Confirmed X-ray Galaxy Clusters

C. C. Kirkpatrick, N. Clerc, A. Finoguenov +16

SPIDERS is the spectroscopic follow-up effort of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) project for the identification of X-ray selected galaxy clusters. We present our catalogu…