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Hydrostatic And Caustic Mass Profiles Of Galaxy Clusters, Ben J. Maughan, Paul A. Giles, Kenneth J. Rines, Antonaldo Diaferio, Margaret J. Geller, Nina Van Der Pyl, Massimiliano Bonamente
Hydrostatic And Caustic Mass Profiles Of Galaxy Clusters, Ben J. Maughan, Paul A. Giles, Kenneth J. Rines, Antonaldo Diaferio, Margaret J. Geller, Nina Van Der Pyl, Massimiliano Bonamente
Physics & Astronomy
We compare X-ray and caustic mass profiles for a sample of 16 massive galaxy clusters. We assume hydrostatic equilibrium in interpreting the X-ray data, and use large samples of cluster members with redshifts as a basis for applying the caustic technique. The hydrostatic and caustic masses agree to better than ≈20 per cent on average across the radial range covered by both techniques (∼[0.2–1.25]R500). The mass profiles were measured independently and do not assume a common functional form. Previous studies suggest that, at R500 , the hydrostatic and caustic masses are biased low and high, respectively. …