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Description
We present a detailed study of the integrated total hydrostatic mass profiles of the five most massive (M_500_^SZ^>5x10^14^M_{sun}_) galaxy 500 clusters selected at z~1 via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. These objects represent an ideal laboratory to test structure formation models where the primary driver is gravity. Optimally exploiting spatially-resolved spectroscopic information from XMM-Newton and Chandra observations, we used both parametric (forward, backward) and non-parametric methods to recover the mass profiles, finding that the results are extremely robust when density and temperature measurements are both available. Our X-ray masses at R_500_ are higher than the weak lensing masses obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with a mean ratio of 1.39^+0.47^_-0.35_. This offset goes in the opposite direction to that expected in a scenario where the hydrostatic method yields a biased, underestimated, mass. We investigated halo shape parameters such as sparsity and concentration, and compared to local X-ray selected clusters, finding hints for evolution in the central regions (or for selection effects). The total baryonic content is in agreement with the cosmic value at R_500_. Comparison with numerical simulations shows that the mass distribution and concentration are in line with expectations. These results illustrate the power of X-ray observations to probe the statistical properties of the gas and total mass profiles in this high-mass, high-redshift regime.
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