Conveners
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- Lindsey Bleem (Argonne National Laboratory)
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- Laurence Perotto (LPSC)
In this talk we report upon results the intracluster medium (ICM) of two galaxy clusters at the time the first objects start to emerge from the cosmic web, z~2. Results are derived from new high resolution, deep SZ and X-ray data providing us with the measurement of the two most distant resolved pressure profiles. IDCSJ1426 cluster at z=1.75 has a core whose properties has likely reached the...
The strong gravitational lensing regime provides a unique probe of structure formation in the Universe. There has been significant effort to identify and characterize strong lensing clusters selected in the X-ray and optical wavelengths; here we extend such studies to a large sample of strong lensing clusters identified by the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in >5,000 square degrees of South...
The Doppler boosting of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons due to scattering off free electrons produces the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect. It offers a unique way to probe the epoch of reionisation. However, the kSZ signal is sub-dominant to other astrophysical signals, in particular the emission from dusty star forming galaxies that form the diffuse component of the cosmic...
Cosmological constraints from galaxy clusters are currently limited by the precision of mass estimation. Non-thermal pressure support is suspected to be the primary culprit in biasing mass estimations from the intracluster medium (ICM). Moreover, (quasi-)turbulent gas motions are thought to be the dominant source of non-thermal pressure, in which case high resolution X-ray spectrographs on...
