Conveners
Wednesday A
- Gustavo yepes (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Wednesday A
- Michael McDonald (MIT)
In this talk, I will present the Baryon Pasting project, which aims to develop a physically-motivated, computationally efficient model for large multi-wavelength cosmological surveys (including microwave, X-ray and optical skies). I will discuss the current status, challenges, and future prospects of forward-modeling multi-wavelength cosmological surveys and enabling cross-survey,...
Galaxy cluster-based cosmology is at a crossroads, with the current and next-generation surveys delivering deep sky surveys and large cluster catalogs. In this framework, the use of simulations to calibrate systematics in cosmological analyses is crucial. As a large proportion of cosmological simulations are gravity-only (effectively only evolving dark matter particles), the exploitation of...
The Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton – Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of structure formation (CHEX-MATE)
is a three-mega-second Multi-Year Heritage Programme to obtain X-ray observations of a minimally-biased, signal-to-noise-limited sample of 118 galaxy clusters detected by Planck through the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect. The program aims to study the ultimate products...
The X-ray spectrum of extragalactic sources, such as galaxy clusters, is affected by the photo-absorption of various components of the Galactic InterStellar Medium (ISM). The resulting spectral distortion contributes to the systematics of cluster temperature measurements. It essentially depends on the total (atomic+molecular) Galactic hydrogen density column, N_H, which remains challenging to...
