Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at theCfA:

Tuesday, April 17, 2001
12:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room (G04)

"Estimating the Masses of Galaxy Clusters"


Chris Metzler
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Abstract:

Clusters of galaxies have long been an important cosmological tool. The next decade of observations promises to produce substantial new samples of galaxy clusters, detected by various means, and spanning a large range in redshift. Most cosmological diagnostics available from clusters involve the accurate measurement of cluster masses. Using N-body and hydrodynamic simulations, we revisit cluster mass estimation and consider issues important to obtaining masses from weak lensing, X-ray, and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of clusters, and to using those masses to constrain the background cosmological model.

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