- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/869/124
- Title:
- Redshift survey of the nearby galaxy cluster A2107
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/869/124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the rotational motion of the galaxy cluster A2107 at redshift z=0.04 and its connection to nearby large-scale structures using a large amount of spectroscopic redshift data. By combining 978 new redshifts from the MMT/Hectospec observations with data in the literature, we construct a large sample of 1968 galaxies with measured redshifts at clustercentric radius R<60'. Our sample has high (80%) and spatially uniform completeness at r-band apparent magnitude m_r,Petro,0_<19.1. We first apply the caustic method to the sample and identify 285 member galaxies of A2107 at R<60'. Then the rotation amplitude and the position angle of the rotation axis are measured. We find that the member galaxies show strong global rotation at R<20' (v_rot_/{sigma}_v_~0.6) with a significance of >3.8{sigma}, which is confirmed by two independent methods. The rotation becomes weaker in outer regions. There are at least five filamentary structures that are connected to the cluster and that consist of known galaxy groups. These structures are smoothly connected to the cluster, which seem to be inducing the global rotation of the cluster through inflow of galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/425/367
- Title:
- REFLEX Galaxy Cluster Survey catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/425/367
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the catalogue of the REFLEX Cluster Survey providing information on the X-ray properties, redshifts, and some identification details of the clusters in the REFLEX sample. The catalogue describes a statistically complete X-ray flux-limited sample of 447 galaxy clusters above an X-ray flux of 3x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ (0.1 to 2.4keV) in an area of 4.24ster in the southern sky. The cluster candidates were first selected by their X-ray emission in the ROSAT-All Sky Survey and subsequently spectroscopically identified in the frame of an ESO key programme. Previously described tests have shown that the sample is more than 90% complete and there is a conservative upper limit of 9% on the fraction of clusters with a dominant X-ray contamination from AGN. In addition to the cluster catalogue we also describe the complete selection criteria as a function of the sky position and the conversion functions used to analyse the X-ray data. These are essential for the precise statistical analysis of the large-scale cluster distribution. This data set is at present the largest, statistically complete X-ray galaxy cluster sample. Together with these data set we also provide for the first time the full three-dimensional selection function. The sample forms the basis of several cosmological studies, one of the most important applications being the assessment of the statistics of the large-scale structure of the universe and the test of cosmological models. Part of these cosmological results have already been published.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/429/3272
- Title:
- REFLEX II flux-limited supercluster sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/429/3272
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first supercluster catalogue constructed with the extended ROSAT-ESO Flux-Limited X-ray (REFLEX II) Galaxy Cluster survey data, which comprises 919 X-ray selected galaxy clusters with a flux limit of 1.8x10^-12^erg/s/cm2. Based on this cluster catalogue we construct a supercluster catalogue using a friends-of-friends algorithm with a linking length depending on the (local) cluster density, which thus varies with redshift. The resulting catalogue comprises 164 superclusters at redshift z<=0.4. The choice of the linking length in the friends-of-friends method modifies the properties of the superclusters. We study the properties of different catalogues such as the distributions of the redshift, extent and multiplicity by varying the choice of parameters. In addition to the supercluster catalogue for the entire REFLEX II sample, we compile a large volume-limited cluster sample from REFLEX II with the redshift and luminosity constraints of z<=0.1 and L_X_>=5x10^43^erg/s. With this catalogue we construct a volume-limited sample of superclusters. This sample is built with a homogeneous linking length, and hence selects effectively the same type of superclusters. By increasing the luminosity cut we can build a hierarchical tree structure of the volume-limited samples, where systems at the top of the tree are only formed via the most luminous clusters. This allows us to test if the same superclusters are found when only the most luminous clusters are visible, comparable to the situation at higher redshift in the REFLEX II sample. We find that the selection of superclusters is very robust, independent of the luminosity cut, and the contamination of spurious superclusters among cluster pairs is expected to be small. Numerical simulations and observations of the substructure of clusters suggest that regions of high cluster number density provide an astrophysically different environment for galaxy clusters, where the mass function and X-ray luminosity function are shifted to higher cut-off values and an increased merger rate may also boost some of the cluster X-ray luminosities. We therefore compare the X-ray luminosity function for the clusters in superclusters with that for the field clusters with the flux- and volume-limited catalogues. The results mildly support the theoretical suggestion of a top-heavy X-ray luminosity function of galaxy clusters in regions of high cluster density.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A30
- Title:
- REFLEX II. Properties of the survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/555/A30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxy clusters provide unique laboratories to study astrophysical processes on large scales and are important probes for cosmology. X-ray observations are currently the best means of detecting and characterizing galaxy clusters. Therefore X-ray surveys for galaxy clusters are one of the best ways to obtain a statistical census of the galaxy cluster population. In this paper we describe the construction of the REFLEX II galaxy cluster survey based on the southern part of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. REFLEX II extends the REFLEX I survey by a factor of about two down to a flux limit of 1.8x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ (0.1-2.4keV). We describe the determination of the X-ray parameters, the process of X-ray source identification, and the construction of the survey selection function. The REFLEX II cluster sample comprises currently 915 objects. A standard selection function is derived for a lower source count limit of 20 photons in addition to the flux limit. The median redshift of the sample is z=0.102. Internal consistency checks and the comparison to several other galaxy cluster surveys imply that REFLEX II is better than 90% complete with a contamination less than 10%. With this publication we give a comprehensive statistical description of the REFLEX II survey and provide all the complementary information necessary for a proper modelling of the survey for astrophysical and cosmological applications.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/417/827
- Title:
- Relativistic corrections to Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/417/827
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- These tables contain numerical values for the distortion of the spectral intensity {Delta}I/y defined by the equation {Delta}I/y = 1/y * X^3^/(e^X^-1) * {Delta}n(X)/n0(X) = X^3^/(e^X^-1)*F({theta}_e_,X) The spectral intensity is the function of two variables X and {theta}_e_. Here X={omega}/k_B_*T_0_, {omega} being the photon angular frequency and k_B_*T_0_ being the thermal energy of CMB photons, and {theta}_e_=k_B_*Te/m_e_*c^2^, k_B_*Te being the thermal energy of the electrons and m_e_*c^2^ being the electron rest energy (T_0_ is the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation). In these tables, the range for X is taken as 0<X<20 and the range for {theta}_e_ is taken as 0.002<{theta}_e_<0.100.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/436/275
- Title:
- Relaxation parameter of 2092 rich galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/436/275
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dynamical state of galaxy clusters is closely related to their observational properties in X-ray, optical and radio wavelengths. We develop a method to diagnose the substructure and dynamical state of galaxy clusters by using photometric data of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To trace mass distribution, the brightness distribution of member galaxies is smoothed by using a Gaussian kernel with a weight of their optical luminosities. After deriving the asymmetry, the ridge flatness and the normalized deviation of the smoothed optical map, we define a relaxation parameter, {Gamma}, to quantify dynamical state of clusters. This method is applied to a test sample of 98 clusters of 0.05<z<~0.42 collected from literature with known dynamical states and can recognize dynamical state for relaxed ({Gamma}>=0) and unrelaxed ({Gamma}<0) clusters with a success rate of 94 percent. We then calculate relaxation parameters of 2092 rich clusters previously identified from the SDSS, of which 28 percent clusters are dynamically relaxed with {Gamma}>=0. We find that the dominance and absolute magnitude of the brightest cluster galaxies closely correlate with dynamical states of clusters. The emission power of radio haloes is quantitatively related to cluster dynamical state, beside the known dependence on the X-ray luminosity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/199
- Title:
- Relaxed galaxy clusters sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/199
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the first in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Here we present a new, automated method for identifying relaxed clusters based on their morphologies in X-ray imaging data. While broadly similar to others in the literature, the morphological quantities that we measure are specifically designed to provide a fair basis for comparison across a range of data quality and cluster redshifts, to be robust against missing data due to point source masks and gaps between detectors, and to avoid strong assumptions about the cosmological background and cluster masses. Based on three morphological indicators - symmetry, peakiness, and alignment - we develop the symmetry-peakiness-alignment (SPA) criterion for relaxation. This analysis was applied to a large sample of cluster observations from the Chandra and ROSAT archives. Of the 361 clusters which received the SPA treatment, 57 (16 per cent) were subsequently found to be relaxed according to our criterion. We compare our measurements to similar estimators in the literature, as well as projected ellipticity and other image measures, and comment on trends in the relaxed cluster fraction with redshift, temperature, and survey selection method. Code implementing our morphological analysis will be made available on the web (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/amantz/work/morph14/).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/85
- Title:
- RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/85
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Large surveys of galaxy clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Spitzer, including the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble and the Frontier Fields, have demonstrated the power of strong gravitational lensing to efficiently deliver large samples of high-redshift galaxies. We extend this strategy through a wider, shallower survey named RELICS, the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey, described here. Our 188-orbit Hubble Treasury Program observed 41 clusters at 0.182<=z<=0.972 with Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and WFC3/IR imaging spanning 0.4-1.7{mu}m. We selected 21 of the most massive clusters known based on Planck PSZ2 estimates and 20 additional clusters based on observed or inferred lensing strength. RELICS observed 46 WFC3/IR pointings (~200arcmin^2^) each with two orbits divided among four filters (F105W, F125W, F140W, and F160W) and ACS imaging as needed to achieve single-orbit depth in each of three filters (F435W, F606W, and F814W). As previously reported by Salmon+ (2020ApJ...889..189S), we discovered over 300 z~6-10 candidates, including the brightest z~6 candidates known, and the most distant spatially resolved lensed arc known at z~10. Spitzer IRAC imaging (945hr awarded, plus 100 archival, spanning 3.0-5.0{mu}m) has crucially enabled us to distinguish z~10 candidates from z~2 interlopers. For each cluster, two HST observing epochs were staggered by about a month, enabling us to discover 11 supernovae, including 3 lensed supernovae, which we followed up with 20 orbits from our program.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/2644
- Title:
- REXCESS sample optical and X-ray profiles
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/2644
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxy clusters' structure, dominated by dark matter, is traced by member galaxies in the optical and hot intracluster medium (ICM) in X-rays. We compare the radial distribution of these components and determine the mass-to-light ratio versus system mass relation. We use 14 clusters from the REXCESS sample which is representative of clusters detected in X-ray surveys. Photometric observations with the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2m Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/European Southern Observatory telescope are used to determine the number density profiles of the galaxy distribution out to r_200_. These are compared to electron density profiles of the ICM obtained using XMM-Newton, and dark matter profiles inferred from scaling relations and a Navarro-Frenk-White model. While red sequence galaxies trace the total matter profile, the blue galaxy distribution is much shallower. We see a deficit of faint galaxies in the central regions of massive and regular clusters, and strong suppression of bright and faint blue galaxies in the centres of cool-core clusters, attributable to ram pressure stripping of gas from blue galaxies in high-density regions of ICM and disruption of faint galaxies due to galaxy interactions. We find a mass-to-light ratio versus mass relation within r_200_ of (3.0+/-0.4)x10^2^hM_{sun}_/L_{sun} at 10^15^M_{sun}_ with slope 0.16+/-0.14, consistent with most previous results.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/126
- Title:
- RGZ: distortion of radio galaxies by galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the impact of cluster environment on the morphology of a sample of 4304 extended radio galaxies from Radio Galaxy Zoo. A total of 87% of the sample lies within a projected 15 Mpc of an optically identified cluster. Brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are more likely than other cluster members to be radio sources, and are also moderately bent. The surface density as a function of separation from cluster center of non-BCG radio galaxies follows a power law with index -1.10+/-0.03 out to 10 r_500_ (~7 Mpc), which is steeper than the corresponding distribution for optically selected galaxies. Non-BCG radio galaxies are statistically more bent the closer they are to the cluster center. Within the inner 1.5 r_500_ (~1 Mpc) of a cluster, non-BCG radio galaxies are statistically more bent in high-mass clusters than in low-mass clusters. Together, we find that non-BCG sources are statistically more bent in environments that exert greater ram pressure. We use the orientation of bent radio galaxies as an indicator of galaxy orbits and find that they are preferentially in radial orbits. Away from clusters, there is a large population of bent radio galaxies, limiting their use as cluster locators; however, they are still located within statistically overdense regions. We investigate the asymmetry in the tail length of sources that have their tails aligned along the radius vector from the cluster center, and find that the length of the inward-pointing tail is weakly suppressed for sources close to the center of the cluster.
