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LoCuSS: Testing hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy clusters

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 456, Issue 1, Pages L74-L78

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slv175

Keywords

gravitational lensing: weak; galaxies: clusters: general; cosmology: observations

Funding

  1. Royal Society
  2. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/F001166/1]
  3. World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative)
  4. Funds for the Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology under MEXT, Japan
  5. Core Research for Energetic Universe in Hiroshima University (the MEXT programme for promoting the enhancement of research universities, Japan)
  6. CONICYT Anillo project [ACT-1122]
  7. STFC [ST/H001417/1, PP/E003486/1, ST/N000633/1, ST/I004459/1, ST/J003077/1, PPA/G/S/2002/00652, ST/I004459/2, ST/K000845/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  8. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26400264, 26800097] Funding Source: KAKEN
  9. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M000966/1, PPA/G/S/2002/00652, ST/K000845/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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We test the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium in an X-ray luminosity selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at 0.15 < z < 0.3 from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). Our weak-lensing measurements of M500 control systematic biases to sub-4 per cent, and our hydrostatic measurements of the same achieve excellent agreement between XMM-Newton and Chandra. The mean ratio of X-ray to lensing mass for these 50 clusters is beta(X) = 0.95 +/- 0.05, and for the 44 clusters also detected by Planck, the mean ratio of Planck mass estimate to LoCuSS lensing mass is beta(P) = 0.95 +/- 0.04. Based on a careful like-for-like analysis, we find that LoCuSS, the Canadian Cluster Comparison Project, and Weighing the Giants agree on beta(P) similar or equal to 0.9-0.95 at 0.15 < z < 0.3. This small level of hydrostatic bias disagrees at similar to 5 sigma with the level required to reconcile Planck cosmology results from the cosmic microwave background and galaxy cluster counts.

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