New Constraints on Spatial Variations of the Fine Structure Constant from Clusters of Galaxies by Ivan De Martino, Carlos J. A. P. Martins, Harald Ebeling, Dale Kocevski

“…Although our results are not competitive with the ones from quasar absorption lines, we improved by a factor 10 and ∼2.5 previous results from Cosmic Microwave Background power spectrum and from galaxy clusters, respectively.…”
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OLIMPO: A balloon-borne SZE imager to probe ICM dynamics and the WHIM by Sayers J., Avestruz C., Thakur R. Basu, Battistelli E., Bulbul E., Cacciotti F., Columbro F., Coppolecchia A., Cray S., D’Alessandro G., de Bernardis P., De Petris M., Hanany S., Lamagna L., Lau E., Masi S., Paiella A., Pettinari G., Piacentini F., Rapaport E., Rudnick L., Zhuravleva I., ZuHone J.

“…During a 25 day flight OLIMPO will image a total of 10 z∼0.05 galaxy clusters and 8 bridges at 145, 250, 365, and 460 GHz at an angular resolution of 1.0′–3.3′. …”
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Cluster-counterpart Voids: Void Identification from Galaxy Density Field by Junsup Shim, Changbom Park, Juhan Kim, Sungwook E. Hong

“…Our result demonstrates that we can apply this method to the galaxy redshift survey data to identify cosmic voids corresponding statistically to the galaxy clusters in a given mass range.…”
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Galaxy Merger Candidates in High-redshift Cluster Environments by Delahaye, A. G., Webb, T. M. A., Nantais, J., DeGroot, A., Wilson, G., Muzzin, A., Yee, H. K. C., Foltz, R., Demarco, R., Tudorica, A., Cooper, M. C., Lidman, C., Perlmutter, S., Hayden, B., Boone, K., Surace, J., Noble, Allison G

“…We compile a sample of spectroscopically and photometrically selected cluster galaxies from four high-redshift galaxy clusters (1.59 < z < 1.71) from the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (SpARCS), and a comparison field sample selected from the UKIDSS Deep Survey. …”
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The APM cluster survey: Cluster detection and large-scale structure by Dalton, G

“…The APM Cluster Survey was based on a modification of Abell's original classification scheme for galaxy clusters. Here we discuss the results of an investigation of the stability of the statistical properties of the cluster catalogue to changes in the selection parameters. …”

Adapted Method for Separating Kinetic SZ Signal from Primary CMB Fluctuations by Forni Olivier, Aghanim Nabila

“…To achieve these results, our method is based on the fact that some first-step component separation provides us with (i) a map of Compton parameters for the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (TSZ) effect of galaxy clusters, and (ii) a map of temperature fluctuations which is the sum of primary CMB and KSZ signals. …”
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Cosmology from large-scale structure: constraining ΛCDM with BOSS by Troster, T, Sanchez, AG, Asgari, M, Blake, C, Crocce, M, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Joachimi, B, Joudaki, S, Kannawadi, A, Lin, C-A, Wright, A

“…We reanalyse the anisotropic galaxy clustering measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), demonstrating that using the full shape information provides cosmological constraints that are comparable to other low-redshift probes. …”

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Mass as the driver of the kinematic morphology-density relation in clusters by Brough, S, van de Sande, J, Owers, MS, d’Eugenio, F, Sharp, R, Cortese, L, Scott, N, Croom, SM, Bassett, R, Bekki, K, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Bryant, JJ, Davies, R, Drinkwater, MJ, Driver, SP, Foster, C, Goldstein, G, López-Sánchez, ÁR, Medling, AM, Sweet, SM, Taranu, DS, Tonini, C, Yi, SK, Goodwin, M, Lawrence, JS, Richards, SN

“…We examine the kinematic morphology of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in eight galaxy clusters in the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph Galaxy Survey. …”

A GMRT Narrowband vs. Wideband Analysis of the ACT−CL J0034.4+0225 Field Selected from the ACTPol Cluster Sample by Sinenhlanhla P. Sikhosana, Kenda Knowles, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, Matt Hilton, Kavilan Moodley, Neeraj Gupta

“…Low frequency radio observations of galaxy clusters are a useful probe of the non-thermal intracluster medium (ICM), through observations of diffuse radio emission such as radio halos and relics. …”
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Ram Pressure Stripping in the EAGLE Simulation by Andrea Kulier, Bianca Poggianti, Stephanie Tonnesen, Rory Smith, Alessandro Ignesti, Nina Akerman, Antonino Marasco, Benedetta Vulcani, Alessia Moretti, Anna Wolter

“…Ram pressure stripping of satellite galaxies is thought to be a ubiquitous process in galaxy clusters, and a growing number of observations reveal satellites at different stages of stripping. …”
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The Three Hundred–NIKA2 Sunyaev–Zeldovich Large Program twin samples: Synthetic clusters to support real observations by Paliwal A., Artis E., Cui W., De Petris M., Désert F.-X., Ferragamo A., Gianfagna G., Kéruzoré F., Macías-Pérez J.-F., Mayet F., Muñoz-Echeverría M., Perotto L., Rasia E., Ruppin F., Yepes G.

“…This SZ Large Program is observing a selection of galaxy clusters at intermediate and high redshift (0:5 < z < 0:9), covering one order of magnitude in mass. …”
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Scale-dependent growth from a transition in dark energy dynamics by Amin, Mustafa Abdulkader, Zukin, Phillip Gregory, Bertschinger, Edmund

“…Going beyond the linearized regime, the quintessence field can fragment into large, localized, long-lived excitations (oscillons) with sizes comparable to galaxy clusters; this fragmentation could provide additional observational constraints. …”
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Cluster Distances: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Lucey, JR, Smith, R, Hudson, M, Schlegel, D, Davies, R

“…Galaxy clusters are important targets for peculiar velocity studies as a direct comparison of the various distance indicators can be made. …”

Self-interacting dark matter on small and large scales by Camila A. Correa

“…SIDM has been constrained by observations of galaxy clusters. More recently, measurements of large DM densities at the center of the Milky Way's galaxy satellites are indicating that DM-DM interactions can potentially induce gravothermal core collapse. …”
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Visualization of 3D galaxy and quasar data by Tan, Cheng Jie

“…Recent advances in observatory astronomy have brought in a large volume of high quality data about the very far end of our universe, including galaxy, clusters, quasars, etc. The aim of this project was to develop a visualization of these 3D data for possible inclusion in a digital planetarium project. …”
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Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters by Collaboration, P, Ade, P, Aghanim, N, Arnaud, M, Ashdown, M, Atrio-Barandela, F, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Balbi, A, Banday, A, Barreiro, R, Bartlett, J, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoît, A, Bernard, J, Bersanelli, M, Bhatia, R, Bikmaev, I, Böhringer, H, Bonaldi, A, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Bourdin, H

“…Using the Planck data we construct a local map of the tSZ effect centered on each pair of galaxy clusters. ROSAT data is used to construct X-ray maps of these pairs. …”

Velocity Segregation and Systematic Biases in Velocity Dispersion Estimates with the SPT-GMOS Spectroscopic Survey by Zengo, Kyle, Ruel, Jonathan, Benson, Bradford A., Bleem, Lindsey E., Bocquet, Sebastian, Brodwin, Mark, Capasso, Raffaella, Chiu, I-non, Rapetti, David, Saro, Alex, Stalder, Brian, Stark, Antony A., Strazzullo, Veronica, Stubbs, Christopher W., Zenteno, Alfredo, Bayliss, Matthew B, Bulbul, Gul E, McDonald, Michael A.

“…Keywords: cosmology: observations; galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: distances; redshifts; galaxies: evolution ; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics…”
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Constraints on the Hosts of UHECR Accelerators by Marco Stein Muzio, Glennys R. Farrar

“…Applying this to candidate sources with a simple structure shows that starburst galaxies are consistent with these constraints, but galaxy clusters are in tension with them. For multicomponent systems like active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts, the results are indicative, but a customized analysis is needed for definitive conclusions.…”
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Radio galaxies and energetics of the intracluster medium by Begelman, M

“…The time- and ensemble-averaged mechanical energy outputs of radio galaxies may be large enough to offset much of the cooling inferred from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters. But does this heating actually counterbalance the cooling, diminishing cooling flows or quenching them altogether? …”

The large-scale structure of the universe by McGill, C, Colin Andrew McGill

“…Chapter 4 is concerned with two-point correlation functions for galaxies, clusters and super-clusters. In Chapter 5, some effects of using velocity as a distance measure are examined. …”