Please check the press release of our recent paper for the primordial dark matter halo of our Milky Way. https://t.co/2uwzOdGusk

Interesting.

This project is in collaboration with the great eROSITA cluster team led by @dresrabulbul and many excellent collaborators including @8minutesold, @YongTian401.

Finally, we check the radial acceleration relation established in galaxies. The three independent mass proxies consistently lead to higher total accelerations than predicted by the RAR. So the discrepancy in clusters seems to be a true problem for the universality of the RAR.

Still, the wl-inferred mass is higher than hydrostatic mass by 110% on average. This might be the reason why the latest eRASS1 measurements of sigma_8 present a much higher value than previous estimates. Certainly, we need to run the full cosmological pipeline to confirm.

However, this is not the right comparison for cosmological purpose. Because when measuring sigma_8 using different cluster mass proxies, one would use their own total mass within their own R500. So here is the right comparison.

We also compared our mass estimates with that inferred from weak lensing in Ghirardini et al. (2024). To be fair, we calculated the hydrostatic mass within the same radius as that for weak lensing. We found that weak lensing inferred masses are significantly higher.

There seems to be a trend that the dynamical-to-hydrostatic mass ratio decreases with increasing radius, which might be evidence that galaxies in the outskirts are accreting toward the centers of clusters. But we need more statistics to confirm.

We then compared these two mass proxies. Statistically, there is no significant difference. But at small radii, cluster galaxies provide higher mass estimates than X-ray emitting gas, while at large radii the difference becomes smaller.

Notice that the slope is 1.296 instead of 1, because there is a radial evolution. The rms scatter is only 0.14 dex. This relation can be viewed as a simplified Jeans equation. It can be used to quickly estimate the total enclosed mass.

By numerically solving the Jeans equation for the kinematics of member galaxies, we derived their cumulative dynamical masses at some discrete radii. We determined the spatially resolved mass-velocity dispersion relation: log(M_dyn) = 1.296 * log(sigma_los^2 * r_proj/G) - 3.87.

From the eROSITA X-ray data, we derived electron number density profiles, temperature profiles, gas mass profiles, and hydrostatic mass profiles. These data are all made public and the link is shared in the paper.

The cluster galaxies are from Kluge et al. (2024), which compiled many different catalogs from the literature. Eventually, we retain 22 clusters that have sufficient number of galaxy spectra for robust statistics.

In this paper, we aim to compare two mass proxies for galaxy clusters: cluster galaxies and intracluster medium. So we need both X-ray data and sufficient number of galaxy spectra. We selected clusters from the latest eRASS1 cluster catalog by Bulbul et al. (2024).

#Paperday New paper accepted by A&A on the mass measurements and comparisons for eROSITA clusters is available at https://t.co/n9thAdu0Ap. One result that might be particularly useful is the spatially resolved mass-velocity dispersion relation. A thread summarizes the paper.

Equivalent Humboldt fellowships for German researchers and those who got their PhD in Germany.

We also find a significant excess of galaxies compared to models at the highest redshifts, suggesting strongly that someone is off in our interpretation of these first galaxies or within the models themselves.

What a good summary.

Check out @Heesters_N's second paper of his Ph.D. on anistropies in dwarf galaxy satellite distributions. It's a very cool work and showcases what you actually can do with the growing catalogs of nearby dwarf galaxy systems.

Weak lensing: Rotation curves of galaxies could be flat up to 1 Mpc.