The Abell 3391/95 galaxy cluster system: A 15 Mpc intergalactic medium emission filament, a warm gas bridge, infalling matter clumps, and (re-) accelerated plasma discovered by combining SRG/eROSITA data with ASKAP/EMU and DECam data

no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • T. H. Reiprich, A. Veronica, F. Pacaud, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, N. Ota, J. Sanders, M. Kara, T. Erben, M. Klein, J. Erler, J. Kerp, D. N. Hoang, M. Brüggen, J. Marvil, L. Rudnick, V. Biffi, K. Dolag, J. Aschersleben, K. Basu, H. Brunner, E. Bulbul, K. Dennerl, D. Eckert, M. Freyberg, E. Gatuzz, V. Ghirardini, F. Käfer, A. Merloni, K. Migkas, K. Nandra, P. Predehl, J. Robrade, M. Salvato, B. Whelan, A. Diaz-Ocampo, D. Hernandez-Lang, A. Zenteno, M. J. I. Brown, J. D. Collier, J. M. Diego, A. M. Hopkins, A. Kapinska, B. Koribalski, T. Mroczkowski, R. P. Norris, A. O'Brien, E. Vardoulaki

We used dedicated SRG/eROSITA X-ray, ASKAP/EMU radio, and DECam optical observations of a 15 sq. deg region around the interacting galaxy cluster system A3391/95 to study the warm-hot gas in cluster outskirts and filaments, the surrounding large-scale structure and its formation process.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

The galaxy cluster mass scale and its impact on cosmological constraints from the cluster population

no code implementations • 27 Feb 2019 • G. W. Pratt, M. Arnaud, A. Biviano, D. Eckert, S. Ettori, D. Nagai, N. Okabe, T. H. Reiprich

On the observational side, new, sophisticated techniques are being deployed in individual mass measurements and to account for selection biases in cluster surveys.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics