Early Results from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS)
- Dr. Chris Haines, University of Birmingham
Early Results from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS)
- Dr. Chris Haines, University of Birmingham
Gravitational lensing has long been recognized as a powerful tool for mapping the distribution of dark matter in clusters, and yet until recently, it has only been applied routinely to individual clusters. However both strong and weak lensing are developing rapidly into tools that can routinely be applied to samples rivaling, for example, those considered by X-ray-only scaling relation studies.
The Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS) is assembling a sample of ~100 z~0.2 clusters with HST, Subaru, Chandra, XMM and Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect data. The overall goal is to study how the recent assembly history of the clusters (as revealed by lensing-based mass maps) influences the baryons trapped in the clusters, and calibrate the cluster mass scaling relations (weak lensing, X-ray, SZ) that will be used for ongoing and future dark energy surveys.
I will also introduce the multi-wavelength campaign comprising large programs with GALEX, Subaru, UKIRT, Spitzer and Herschel to obtain panoramic UV-FIR imaging of 32 clusters with the aim of witnessing the transformation of infalling spirals.
Journal club
martedì 22 aprile 2008 - Journal Club: 2N’22, ore 11:00