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20092025
most citedA giant radio halo in the cool core cluster CL1821+643

89 citations · 609 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Selection Function of Clusters in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Data from Cross-Matching with South Pole Telescope Detections

S. Grandis, M. Costanzi, J. J. Mohr +52

Galaxy clusters selected based on overdensities of galaxies in photometric surveys provide the largest cluster samples. Yet modeling the selection function of such samples is compl…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. II. Cosmological Constraints from the Abundance of Massive Halos

S. Bocquet, S. Grandis, L. E. Bleem +193

We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultan…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Weak lensing mass bias and the alignment of center proxies

Martin W. Sommer, Tim Schrabback, Antonio Ragagnin +1

Galaxy cluster masses derived from observations of weak lensing suffer from a number of biases affecting the accuracy of mass-observable relations calibrated from such observations…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 22 cited

Extending empirical constraints on the SZ-mass scaling relation to higher redshifts via HST weak lensing measurements of nine clusters from the SPT-SZ survey at

Hannah Zohren, Tim Schrabback, Sebastian Bocquet +17

We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) weak gravitational lensing study of nine distant and massive galaxy clusters with redshifts ($z_\mathrm{medi…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 22 cited

Weak lensing mass modeling bias and the impact of miscentring

Martin W. Sommer, Tim Schrabback, Douglas E. Applegate +4

Parametric modeling of galaxy cluster density profiles from weak lensing observations leads to a mass bias, whose detailed understanding is critical in deriving accurate mass-obser…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 41 cited

Mass calibration of distant SPT galaxy clusters through expanded weak lensing follow-up observations with HST, VLT & Gemini-South

T. Schrabback, S. Bocquet, M. Sommer +18

Expanding from previous work we present weak lensing measurements for a total sample of 30 distant () massive galaxy clusters from the South Pole Telescope…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 21 cited

Weak lensing measurements of the APEX-SZ galaxy cluster sample

Matthias Klein, Holger Israel, Aarti Nagarajan +5

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effec…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 66 cited

A LOFAR study of non-merging massive galaxy clusters

Federica Savini, Annalisa Bonafede, Marcus Brueggen +15

Centrally located diffuse radio emission has been observed in both merging and non-merging galaxy clusters. Depending on their morphology and size, we distinguish between giant rad…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 10 cited

Discovery of large scale shock fronts correlated with the radio halo and radio relic in the A2163 galaxy cluster

Sophia Thölken, Thomas H. Reiprich, Martin W. Sommer +1

Imprints of galaxy cluster formation processes are visible in the intracluster medium and can arise in shock fronts, which are detectable via discontinuities in e.g. the gas temper…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 30 cited

Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using APEX-SZ galaxy clusters

A. Nagarajan, F. Pacaud, M. Sommer +16

The use of galaxy clusters as precision cosmological probes relies on an accurate determination of their masses. However, inferring the relationship between cluster mass and observ…

astro-ph.CO2017

MERGHERS: An SZ-selected cluster survey with MeerKAT

Kenda Knowles, Andrew Baker, Kaustuv Basu +20

The MeerKAT telescope will be one of the most sensitive radio arrays in the pre-SKA era. Here we discuss a low-frequency SZ-selected cluster survey with MeerKAT, the MeerKAT Extend…

astro-ph.CO2016

Galaxy cluster outskirts from the thermal SZ and non-thermal synchrotron link

Kaustuv Basu, Jens Erler, Martin Sommer +2

Galaxy cluster merger shocks are the main agent for the thermalization of the intracluster medium and the energization of cosmic ray particles in it. Shock propagation changes the…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 43 cited

Mpc-scale diffuse radio emission in two massive cool-core clusters of galaxies

Martin W. Sommer, Kaustuv Basu, Huib Intema +4

Radio halos are diffuse synchrotron sources on scales of ~1 Mpc that are found in merging clusters of galaxies, and are believed to be powered by electrons re-accelerated by the me…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 38 cited

ALMA-SZ Detection of a Galaxy Cluster Merger Shock at Half the Age of the Universe

Kaustuv Basu, Martin Sommer, Jens Erler +5

We present ALMA measurements of a merger shock using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signal, at the location of a radio relic in the famous El Gordo galaxy cluster at $z…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 33 cited

The impact of the SZ effect on cm-wavelength (1-30 GHz) observation of galaxy cluster radio relics

Kaustuv Basu, Franco Vazza, Jens Erler +1

(Abridged) Radio relics in galaxy clusters are believed to be associated with powerful shock fronts that originate during cluster mergers, and are a testbed for the acceleration of…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 27 cited

Radio halos in SZ-selected clusters of galaxies: the making of a halo?

A. Bonafede, H. T. Intema, M. Brüggen +8

Radio halos are synchrotron radio sources detected in some massive galaxy clusters. Their Mpc-size indicates that (re)acceleration processes are taking place in the host cluster. X…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 24 cited

Optical & Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations of a New Sample of Distant Rich Galaxy Clusters in the ROSAT All Sky Survey

A. Buddendiek, T. Schrabback, C. H. Greer +15

Finding a sample of the most massive clusters with redshifts can provide an interesting consistency check of the cold dark matter (CDM) model. Here we present result…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 89 cited

A giant radio halo in the cool core cluster CL1821+643

A. Bonafede, H. T. Intema, M. Brüggen +8

Giant radio halos are Mpc-size sources found in some merging galaxy clusters. The synchrotron emitting electrons are thought to be (re)accelerated by plasma turbulence induced by t…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 13 cited

Galaxy cluster scaling relations measured with APEX-SZ

A. N. Bender, J. Kennedy, P. A. R. Ade +30

We present thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) measurements for 42 galaxy clusters observed at 150 GHz with the APEX-SZ experiment. For each cluster, we model the pressure prof…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 40 cited

A comparative study of radio halo occurrence in SZ and X-ray selected galaxy cluster samples

Martin W. Sommer, Kaustuv Basu

We aim at an unbiased census of the radio halo population in galaxy clusters and test whether current low number counts of radio halos have arisen from selection biases. We constru…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 7 cited

Redshift evolution of the 1.4 GHz volume averaged radio luminosity function in clusters of galaxies

M. W. Sommer, K. Basu, F. Pacaud +2

By cross-correlating large samples of galaxy clusters with publicly available radio source catalogs, we construct the volume-averaged radio luminosity function (RLF) in clusters of…

astro-ph.CO2010

Joint X-ray/Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Analysis of the Intra-Cluster Medium

Kaustuv Basu, Martin W. Sommer, Yu-Ying Zhang

We present results from a joint X-ray/Sunyaev-Zel'dovich modeling of the intra-cluster gas using XMM-Newton and APEX-SZ imaging data. The goal is to study the physical properties o…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 5 cited

Submillimetre observations of RX J1856.5--3754

B. Posselt, K. Schreyer, R. Perna +3

We report on submillimetre bolometer observations of the isolated neutron star RX J1856.5--3754 using the LABOCA bolometer array on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) Telesco…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 21 cited

Submillimeter galaxies behind the Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56)

Daniel Johansson, Cathy Horellou, Martin W. Sommer +6

Clusters of galaxies are effective gravitational lenses able to magnify background galaxies and making it possible to probe the fainter part of the galaxy population. Submillimeter…