| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Witnessing the culmination of structure formation in the Universe |
| Proposal Category | Galaxies, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters |
| Proposal Type | UNDEFINED |
| Proposal Id | 082450 |
| Number of Observations | 148 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 5973 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr M S Arnaud-Ettori |
| Institute | CEA-INAF |
| Country | OTHER |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| M. Rossetti | ITALY | |
| D. Eckert | GERMANY | |
| F. Gastaldello | ITALY | |
| M. Sereno | ITALY | |
| B. Maughan | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| G. Pratt | FRANCE | |
| H. Aussel | FRANCE | |
| R. Barrena | SPAIN | |
| I. Bartalucci | FRANCE | |
| C. Jones | UNITED STATES | |
| R. Gavazzi | FRANCE | |
| L. Lovisari | UNITED STATES | |
| J. Melin | FRANCE | |
| S. Pires | FRANCE | |
| E. Pointecouteau | FRANCE | |
| A. Bonafede | ITALY | |
| D. Coe | UNITED STATES | |
| J. Sayers | UNITED STATES | |
| E. Rasia | ITALY | |
| F. Vazza | ITALY | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| This is a Heritage program to study the ultimate products of structure formation in mass and time: a large, unbiased, signal-to-noise limited sample of galaxy clusters detected by Planck via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. Completing the high-fidelity XMM coverage of this sample has extraordinary legacy value. We will (i) obtain an unbiased vision of the statistical properties of the cluster population; (ii) uncover the provenance of non-gravitational heating; (iii) measure how their gas is shaped by the collapse into dark matter haloes and the mergers that built today's clusters; (iv) resolve the major uncertainties in mass determinations that limit cosmological inferences; (v) build the foundation for cluster science with next-generation surveys. | |
| PAPERS |
| - CLASS 1: | papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations |
| - CLASS 2: | papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis |
| - CLASS 3: | further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base) |
| - CLASS 4: | comments and suggestions from PI |