Vikhlinin, Alexey
Senior Astrophysicist
Vikhlinin, Alexey
Senior Astrophysicist
X-ray astronomy; clusters of galaxies
Background And Education
Education And Training
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2017
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Mukhin, Andrey, Krivonos, Roman, Vikhlinin, Alexey, Grefenstette, Brian, Madsen, Kristin, and Wik, Daniel. 2023. "Wavelet-based image decomposition method for NuSTAR stray light background studies." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9 048001. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.4.048001. 2023
- Marin, Frédéric, Churazov, Eugene, Khabibullin, Ildar, Ferrazzoli, Riccardo, Di Gesu, Laura, Barnouin, Thibault, Di Marco, Alessandro, Middei, Riccardo, Vikhlinin, Alexey, Costa, Enrico, Soffitta, Paolo, Muleri, Fabio, Sunyaev, Rashid, Forman, William, Kraft, Ralph, Bianchi, Stefano, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier, Enoto, Teruaki, Agudo, Iván, Antonelli, Lucio A., Bachetti, Matteo, Baldini, Luca, Baumgartner, Wayne H., Bellazzini, Ronaldo et al. 2023. "X-ray polarization evidence for a 200-year-old flare of Sgr A*." Nature, 619 41–45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06064-x. 2023
- Ntampaka, Michelle and Vikhlinin, Alexey. 2022. "The Importance of Being Interpretable: Toward an Understandable Machine Learning Encoder for Galaxy Cluster Cosmology." The Astrophysical Journal, 926 45. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac423e. 2022
- Saade, M. Lynne, Stern, Daniel, Brightman, Murray, Haiman, Zoltán, Djorgovski, S. G., D'Orazio, Daniel, Ford, K. E. S., Graham, Matthew J., Jun, Hyunsung D., Kraft, Ralph P., McKernan, Barry, Vikhlinin, Alexey, and Walton, Dominic J. 2020. "Chandra Observations of Candidate Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes." The Astrophysical Journal, 900 148. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abad31. 2020
- Starikova, Svetlana, Vikhlinin, Alexey, Kravtsov, A., Kraft, Ralph, Connor, T., Mulchaey, J. S., and Nagai, D. 2020. "Stellar-mass Measurements in A133 with Magellan/IMACS." The Astrophysical Journal, 892 34. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7924. 2020
- Masini, Alberto, Hickox, Ryan C., Carroll, Christopher M., Aird, James, Alexander, David M., Assef, Roberto J., Bower, Richard, Brodwin, Mark, Brown, Michael J. I., Chatterjee, Suchetana, Chen, Chien-Ting J., Dey, Arjun, DiPompeo, Michael A., Duncan, Kenneth J., Eisenhardt, Peter R. M., Forman, William R., Gonzalez, Anthony H., Goulding, Andrew D., Hainline, Kevin N., Jannuzi, Buell T., Jones, Christine, Kochanek, Christopher S., Kraft, Ralph, Lee, Kyoung-Soo, Miller, Eric D. et al. 2020. "The Chandra Deep Wide-field Survey: A New Chandra Legacy Survey in the Boötes Field. I. X-Ray Point Source Catalog, Number Counts, and Multiwavelength Counterparts." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 251 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abb607. 2020
- Ntampaka, Michelle, ZuHone, J., Eisenstein, D., Nagai, D., Vikhlinin, A., Hernquist, L., Marinacci, F., Nelson, D., Pakmor, R., Pillepich, A., Torrey, P., and Vogelsberger, M. 2019. "A Deep Learning Approach to Galaxy Cluster X-Ray Masses." The Astrophysical Journal, 876 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab14eb. 2019
- Connor, Thomas, Zahedy, Fakhri S., Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Cooper, Thomas J., Mulchaey, John S., and Vikhlinin, Alexey. 2019. "COS Observations of the Cosmic Web: A Search for the Cooler Components of a Hot, X-Ray Identified Filament." The Astrophysical Journal, 884 L20. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab45f5. 2019
- Bocquet, S., Dietrich, J. P., Schrabback, T., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Allen, S. W., Applegate, D. E., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Brodwin, M., Bulbul, Esra, Canning, R. E. A., Capasso, R., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. -M, Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A. et al. 2019. "Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal, 878 55. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f10. 2019
- Gaskin, Jessica, Özel, Feryal, Vikhlinin, Alexey, and Swartz, Douglas. 2019. "Special Section Guest Editorial: Lynx X-Ray Observatory." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 5 021000. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.5.2.021000. 2019
- Zhuravleva, I., Churazov, E., Schekochihin, A. A., Allen, S. W., Vikhlinin, Alexey, and Werner, N. 2019. "Suppressed effective viscosity in the bulk intergalactic plasma." Nature Astronomy, 3 832–837. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0794-z. 2019
- Ge, Chong, Sun, Ming, Rozo, Eduardo, Sehgal, Neelima, Vikhlinin, Alexey, Forman, William, Jones, Christine, and Nagai, Daisuke. 2019. "X-ray scaling relations from a complete sample of the richest maxBCG clusters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484 1946–1971. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz088. 2019
- Ben-Ami, Sagi, Vikhlinin, Alexey, and Loeb, Abraham. 2018. "SMBH Seeds: Model Discrimination with High-energy Emission Based on Scaling Relation Evolution." The Astrophysical Journal, 854 4. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa6d0. 2018
- Kravtsov, A. V., Vikhlinin, A. A., and Meshcheryakov, A. V. 2018. "Stellar Mass---Halo Mass Relation and Star Formation Efficiency in High-Mass Halos." Astronomy Letters, 44 8–34. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773717120015. 2018
- Connor, Thomas, Kelson, Daniel D., Mulchaey, John, Vikhlinin, Alexey, Patel, Shannon G., Balogh, Michael L., Joshi, Gandhali, Kraft, Ralph, Nagai, Daisuke, and Starikova, Svetlana. 2018. "Wide-field Optical Spectroscopy of Abell 133: A Search for Filaments Reported in X-Ray Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 867 25. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae38b. 2018
- van Weeren, R. J., Ogrean, G. A., Jones, C., Forman, W. R., Andrade-Santos, F., Pearce, Connor J. J., Bonafede, A., Brüggen, M., Bulbul, E., Clarke, T. E., Churazov, E., David, L., Dawson, W. A., Donahue, M., Goulding, A., Kraft, R. P., Mason, B., Merten, J., Mroczkowski, T., Nulsen, P. E. J., Rosati, P., Roediger, E., Randall, Scott W., Sayers, J., Umetsu, K. et al. 2017. "Chandra and JVLA Observations of HST Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J0717.5 3745." The Astrophysical Journal, 835 197. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/197. 2017
- Forman, W., Churazov, E., Jones, C., Heinz, S., Kraft, R., and Vikhlinin, A. 2017. "Partitioning the Outburst Energy of a Low Eddington Accretion Rate AGN at the Center of an Elliptical Galaxy: The Recent 12 Myr History of the Supermassive Black Hole in M87." The Astrophysical Journal, 844 122. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa70e4. 2017
- Bourdin, H., Mazzotta, P., Kozmanyan, A., Jones, C., and Vikhlinin, A. 2017. "Pressure Profiles of Distant Galaxy Clusters in the Planck Catalogue." The Astrophysical Journal, 843 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa74d0. 2017
- Bartalucci, I., Arnaud, M., Pratt, G. W., Vikhlinin, A., Pointecouteau, E., Forman, W. R., Jones, C., Mazzotta, P., and Andrade-Santos, F. 2017. "Recovering galaxy cluster gas density profiles with XMM-Newton and Chandra." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 608 A88. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731689. 2017
- Nurgaliev, D., McDonald, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L., Bocquet, S., Forman, W. R., Garmire, G. P., Gupta, N., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Mohr, J. J., Nagai, D., Rapetti, D., Stark, Antony A., Stubbs, C. W., and Vikhlinin, A. 2017. "Testing for X-Ray–SZ Differences and Redshift Evolution in the X-Ray Morphology of Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 841 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6db4. 2017
- Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Lovisari, Lorenzo, Vikhlinin, Alexey, van Weeren, Reinout J., Murray, Stephen S., Arnaud, Monique, Pratt, Gabriel W., Démoclès, Jessica, Kraft, Ralph, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Böhringer, Hans, Chon, Gayoung, Giacintucci, Simona, Clarke, Tracy E., Borgani, Stefano, David, Larry, Douspis, Marian, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Dahle, Håkon, Brown, Shea, Aghanim, Nabila, and Rasia, Elena. 2017. "The Fraction of Cool-core Clusters in X-Ray versus SZ Samples Using Chandra Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 843 76. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7461. 2017
- Churazov, E., Arevalo, P., Forman, W., Jones, C., Schekochihin, A., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Zhuravleva, I. 2016. "Arithmetic with X-ray images of galaxy clusters: effective equation of state for small-scale perturbations in the ICM." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463 1057–1067. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2044. 2016
- de Haan, T., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Allen, S. W., Applegate, D. E., Ashby, M. L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. -M, Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doucouliagos, A. N., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R., Garmire, G. P., George, E. M. et al. 2016. "Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clusters in the 2500 Square-degree SPT-SZ Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 832 95. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/95. 2016
- Ogrean, G. A., van Weeren, R. J., Jones, C., Forman, W., Dawson, W. A., Golovich, N., Andrade-Santos, F., Murray, Stephen S., Nulsen, P., Roediger, E., Zitrin, A., Bulbul, E., Kraft, R., Goulding, A., Umetsu, K., Mroczkowski, T., Bonafede, A., Randall, Scott W., Sayers, J., Churazov, E., David, L., Merten, J., Donahue, M., Mason, B., Rosati, P. et al. 2016. "Frontier Fields Clusters: Deep Chandra Observations of the Complex Merger MACS~J1149.6 2223." The Astrophysical Journal, 819 113. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/113. 2016
- Bayliss, M. B., Ruel, J., Stubbs, C. W., Allen, S. W., Applegate, D. E., Ashby, M. L. N., Bautz, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Capasso, R., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. -M, Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doucouliagos, A. N., Foley, R. J. et al. 2016. "SPT-GMOS: A Gemini/GMOS-South Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxy Clusters in the SPT-SZ Survey." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 227 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/227/1/3. 2016
- van Weeren, R. J., Ogrean, G. A., Jones, C., Forman, W. R., Andrade-Santos, F., Bonafede, A., Brüggen, M., Bulbul, E., Clarke, T. E., Churazov, E., David, L., Dawson, W. A., Donahue, M., Goulding, A., Kraft, R. P., Mason, B., Merten, J., Mroczkowski, T., Murray, Stephen S., Nulsen, P. E. J., Rosati, P., Roediger, E., Randall, Scott W., Sayers, J., Umetsu, K. et al. 2016. "The Discovery of Lensed Radio and X-Ray Sources behind the Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J0717.5 3745 with the JVLA and Chandra." The Astrophysical Journal, 817 98. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/98. 2016
- Zou, S., Maughan, B. J., Giles, P. A., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Pacaud, F., Burenin, R., and Hornstrup, A. 2016. "The X-ray luminosity-temperature relation of a complete sample of low-mass galaxy clusters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463 820–831. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1992. 2016
- Zhuravleva, I., Churazov, E., Arévalo, P., Schekochihin, A. A., Forman, W. R., Allen, S. W., Simionescu, A., Sunyaev, R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Werner, N. 2016. "The nature and energetics of AGN-driven perturbations in the hot gas in the Perseus Cluster." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458 2902–2915. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw520. 2016
- Churazov, E., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Sunyaev, R. 2015. "(No) dimming of X-ray clusters beyond z ~ 1 at fixed mass: crude redshifts and masses from raw X-ray and SZ data." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450 1984–1989. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv743. 2015
- Baxter, E. J., Keisler, R., Dodelson, S., Aird, K. A., Allen, S. W., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. -M, Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R. et al. 2015. "A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters Using Data from the South Pole Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 247. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/247. 2015
- Liu, J., Mohr, J., Saro, A., Aird, K. A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., Gangkofner, D., George, E. M. et al. 2015. "Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect mass-observable relations using South Pole Telescope observations of an X-ray selected sample of low-mass galaxy clusters and groups." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448 2085–2099. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv080. 2015
- Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Murray, Stephen S., Kraft, Ralph P., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., van Weeren, Reinout J., Nulsen, Paul E. J., David, Laurence P., Dawson, William A., Arnaud, Monique, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Pratt, Gabriel W., and Melin, Jean-Baptiste. 2015. "Chandra and Xmm-Newton Observations of the Bimodal Planck SZ-Detected Cluster Plckg345.40- 39.34 (A3716) with High and Low Entropy Subcluster Cores." The Astrophysical Journal, 803 108. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/108. 2015
- Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Kravtsov, A., Forman, W., Jones, C., Markevitch, M., Murray, Stephen S., and Van Speybroeck, L. 2015. "Erratum: "Chandra Sample of Nearby Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Mass, Gas Fraction, and Mass- Temperature Relation" (2006, ApJ, 640, 691)." The Astrophysical Journal, 799 113. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/113. 2015
- Ogrean, G. A., van Weeren, R. J., Jones, C., Clarke, T. E., Sayers, J., Mroczkowski, T., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W., Murray, Stephen S., Pandey-Pommier, M., Randall, Scott W., Churazov, E., Bonafede, A., Kraft, R., David, L., Andrade-Santos, F., Merten, J., Zitrin, A., Umetsu, K., Goulding, A., Roediger, E., Bagchi, J., Bulbul, E., Donahue, M., Ebeling, H. et al. 2015. "Frontier Fields Clusters: Chandra and JVLA View of the Pre-merging Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403." The Astrophysical Journal, 812 153. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/153. 2015
- Bleem, L. E., Stalder, B., de Haan, T., Aird, K. A., Allen, S. W., Applegate, D. E., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R., George, E. M. et al. 2015. "Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 2500-Square-Degree SPT-SZ Survey." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 216 27. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/216/2/27. 2015
- Zhuravleva, I., Churazov, E., Arévalo, P., Schekochihin, A. A., Allen, S. W., Fabian, A. C., Forman, W. R., Sanders, J. S., Simionescu, A., Sunyaev, R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Werner, N. 2015. "Gas density fluctuations in the Perseus Cluster: clumping factor and velocity power spectrum." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450 4184–4197. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv900. 2015
- Bogdán, Ákos, Vogelsberger, Mark, Kraft, Ralph P., Hernquist, Lars, Gilfanov, Marat, Torrey, Paul, Churazov, Eugene, Genel, Shy, Forman, William R., Murray, Stephen S., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Jones, Christine, and Böhringer, Hans. 2015. "Hot Gaseous Coronae around Spiral Galaxies: Probing the Illustris Simulation." The Astrophysical Journal, 804 72. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/72. 2015
- Lau, Erwin T., Nagai, Daisuke, Avestruz, Camille, Nelson, Kaylea, and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2015. "Mass Accretion and its Effects on the Self-similarity of Gas Profiles in the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 68. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/68. 2015
- Bocquet, S., Saro, A., Mohr, J. J., Aird, K. A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Bazin, G., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R., Gangkofner, D. et al. 2015. "Mass Calibration and Cosmological Analysis of the SPT-SZ Galaxy Cluster Sample Using Velocity Dispersion ? v and X-Ray Y X Measurements." The Astrophysical Journal, 799 214. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/214. 2015
- Saliwanchik, B. R., Montroy, T. E., Aird, K. A., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Dudley, J. P., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R., George, E. M., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H., Halverson, N. W., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. et al. 2015. "Measurement of Galaxy Cluster Integrated Comptonization and Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal, 799 137. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/137. 2015
- Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., McDonald, M., Benson, B. A., Forman, W. R., Allen, S. W., Bleem, L. E., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Dietrich, J. P., Jones, C., Liu, J., Reichardt, C. L., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Schrabback, T., Song, J., Stalder, B., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Zenteno, A. 2015. "X-Ray Cavities in a Sample of 83 SPT-selected Clusters of Galaxies: Tracing the Evolution of AGN Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies out to z=1.2." The Astrophysical Journal, 805 35. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/805/1/35. 2015
- Bartalucci, I., Mazzotta, P., Bourdin, H., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2014. "Chandra ACIS-I particle background: an analytical model." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 566 25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423443. 2014
- Starikova, Svetlana, Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Fabricant, Daniel G., Murray, Stephen S., and Dell'Antonio, Ian P. 2014. "Comparison of Galaxy Clusters Selected by Weak-lensing, Optical Spectroscopy, and X-Rays in the Deep Lens Survey F2 Field." The Astrophysical Journal, 786 125. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/125. 2014
- Saro, A., Liu, J., Mohr, J. J., Aird, K. A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiu, I., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Dolag, K., Dudley, J. P., Foley, R. J., Gangkofner, D. et al. 2014. "Constraints on the CMB temperature evolution using multiband measurements of the Sunyaev- Zel'dovich effect with the South Pole Telescope." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440 2610–2615. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu575. 2014
- Ruel, J., Bazin, G., Bayliss, M., Brodwin, M., Foley, R. J., Stalder, B., Aird, K. A., Armstrong, R., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chapman, S. C., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Dudley, J. P., Forman, W. R. et al. 2014. "Optical Spectroscopy and Velocity Dispersions of Galaxy Clusters from the SPT-SZ Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 792 45. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/792/1/45. 2014
- Bayliss, M. B., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Ruel, J., Brodwin, M., Aird, K. A., Bautz, M. W., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Dudley, J. P., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R., George, E. M., Gettings, D., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H., de Haan, T. et al. 2014. "SPT-CL J2040-4451: An SZ-selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.478 with Significant Ongoing Star Formation." The Astrophysical Journal, 794 12. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/12. 2014
- Avestruz, Camille, Lau, Erwin T., Nagai, Daisuke, and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2014. "Testing X-Ray Measurements of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts with Cosmological Simulations." The Astrophysical Journal, 791 117. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/117. 2014
- Israel, Holger, Reiprich, Thomas H., Erben, Thomas, Massey, Richard J., Sarazin, Craig L., Schneider, Peter, and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2014. "The 400d Galaxy Cluster Survey weak lensing programme. III. Evidence for consistent WL and X-ray masses at z ? 0.5." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 564 129. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322870. 2014
- McDonald, M., Benson, B. A., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Aird, K. A., Allen, S. W., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., Forman, W. R., George, E. M., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H., Halverson, N. W., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. et al. 2014. "The Redshift Evolution of the Mean Temperature, Pressure, and Entropy Profiles in 80 SPT- Selected Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 794 67. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/67. 2014
- Zhuravleva, I., Churazov, E., Schekochihin, A. A., Allen, S. W., Arévalo, P., Fabian, A. C., Forman, W. R., Sanders, J. S., Simionescu, A., Sunyaev, R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Werner, N. 2014. "Turbulent heating in galaxy clusters brightest in X-rays." Nature, 515 85–87. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13830. 2014
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- Bogdán, Ákos, Forman, William R., Kraft, Ralph P., Jones, Christine, Blom, Christina, Randall, Scott W., Zhang, Zhongli, Zhuravleva, Irina, Churazov, Eugene, Li, Zhiyuan, Nulsen, Paul E. J., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Schindler, Sabine. 2012. "Chandra Observations of NGC 4342, an Optically Faint, X-Ray Gas-rich Early-type Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal, 755 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/25. 2012
- Starikova, S., Berta, S., Franceschini, A., Marchetti, L., Rodighiero, G., Vaccari, M., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2012. "Clustering of Star-forming Galaxies Detected in Mid-infrared with the Spitzer Wide-area Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 751 126. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/751/2/126. 2012
- Lau, Erwin T., Nagai, Daisuke, Kravtsov, Andrey V., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Zentner, Andrew R. 2012. "Constraining Cluster Physics with the Shape of X-Ray Clusters: Comparison of Local X-Ray Clusters Versus ?CDM Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 755 116. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/116. 2012
- Sazonov, S., Willner, Steven P., Goulding, A. D., Hickox, R. C., Gorjian, V., Werner, M. W., Churazov, E., Krivonos, R., Revnivtsev, M., Sunyaev, R., Jones, C., Murray, Stephen S., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Fabian, A. C., and Forman, W. R. 2012. "Contribution of the Accretion Disk, Hot Corona, and Obscuring Torus to the Luminosity of Seyfert Galaxies: INTEGRAL and Spitzer Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 757 181. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/181. 2012
- Bogdán, Ákos, Forman, William R., Zhuravleva, Irina, Mihos, J. Christopher, Kraft, Ralph P., Harding, Paul, Guo, Qi, Li, Zhiyuan, Churazov, Eugene, Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Schindler, Sabine, and Jones, Christine. 2012. "Exploring the Unusually High Black-hole-to-bulge Mass Ratios in NGC 4342 and NGC 4291: The Asynchronous Growth of Bulges and Black Holes." The Astrophysical Journal, 753 140. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/140. 2012
- Semler, D. R., Suhada, R., Aird, K. A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Bazin, G., Bocquet, S., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Dudley, J. P., Foley, R. J., George, E. M., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H. et al. 2012. "High-redshift Cool-core Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the South Pole Telescope Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 761 183. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/183. 2012
- Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Reid, P., Tananbaum, Harvey, Schwartz, D. A., Forman, W. R., Jones, C., Bookbinder, J., Cotroneo, V., Trolier-McKinstry, S., Burrows, D., Bautz, M. W., Heilmann, R., Davis, J., Bandler, S. R., Weisskopf, M. C., and Murray, Stephen S. 2012. "SMART-X: Square Meter Arcsecond Resolution x-ray Telescope." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8443 16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926851. 2012
- Reid, P. B., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Cotroneo, V., Davis, W., Johnson-Wilke, R. L., McMuldroch, S., Ramsey, B. D., Schwartz, D. A., Trolier-McKinstry, S., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Wilke, R. H. T. 2012. "Technology development of adjustable grazing incidence x-ray optics for sub-arc second imaging." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8443. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926930. 2012
- Israel, H., Erben, T., Reiprich, T. H., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Sarazin, C. L., and Schneider, P. 2012. "The 400d Galaxy Cluster Survey weak lensing programme. II. Weak lensing study of seven clusters with MMT/MegaCam." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 546 79. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118676. 2012
- Goulding, A. D., Forman, W. R., Hickox, R. C., Jones, C., Kraft, R., Murray, Stephen S., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Coil, A. L., Cooper, M. C., Davis, M., and Newman, J. A. 2012. "The Chandra X-Ray Point-source Catalog in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey Fields." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 202 6. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/202/1/6. 2012
- Rozo, Eduardo, Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and More, Surhud. 2012. "The Y SZ-YX Scaling Relation as Determined from Planck and Chandra." The Astrophysical Journal, 760 67. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/67. 2012
- Schwartz, Daniel A., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Bookbinder, Jay A., Cotroneo, Vincenzo, Davis, William N., Forman, William R., Freeman, Mark D., McMuldroch, Stuart, Reid, Paul, Tananbaum, Harvey, Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, Wilke, Derek, and Johnson-Wilke, Raegan. 2012. "The square meter arcsecond resolution x-ray telescope: SMART-X." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8503 08. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930868. 2012
- High, F. W., Hoekstra, H., Leethochawalit, N., de Haan, T., Abramson, L., Aird, K. A., Armstrong, R., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Bayliss, M., Bazin, G., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Conroy, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Dudley, J. P., Foley, R. J. et al. 2012. "Weak-lensing Mass Measurements of Five Galaxy Clusters in the South Pole Telescope Survey Using Magellan/Megacam." The Astrophysical Journal, 758 68. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/1/68. 2012
- Churazov, E., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Zhuravleva, I., Schekochihin, A., Parrish, I., Sunyaev, R., Forman, W., Böhringer, H., and Randall, Scott W. 2012. "X-ray surface brightness and gas density fluctuations in the Coma cluster." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421 1123–1135. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20372.x. 2012
- Ma, C. -J, McNamara, B. R., Nulsen, P. E. J., Schaffer, R., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2011. "Average Heating Rate of Hot Atmospheres in Distant Clusters by Radio Active Galactic Nucleus: Evidence for Continuous Active Galactic Nucleus Heating." The Astrophysical Journal, 740 51. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/740/2/51. 2011
- Starikova, S., Cool, R., Eisenstein, D., Forman, W., Jones, C., Hickox, R., Kenter, A., Kochanek, C. S., Kravtsov, A., Murray, S. S., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2011. "Constraining Halo Occupation Properties of X-Ray Active Galactic Nuclei Using Clustering of Chandra Sources in the Boötes Survey Region." The Astrophysical Journal, 741, (1) 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/741/1/15. 2011
- Samuele, R., McNamara, B. R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Mullis, C. R. 2011. "Evidence for Rapid Redshift Evolution of Strong Cluster Cooling Flows." The Astrophysical Journal, 731, (1) 31. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/731/1/31. 2011
- Sun, M., Sehgal, N., Voit, G. M., Donahue, M., Jones, C., Forman, William R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Sarazin, C. 2011. "The Pressure Profiles of Hot Gas in Local Galaxy Groups." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 727, (2) L49. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/727/2/L49. 2011
- Brodwin, M., Stern, D., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Stanford, S. A., Gonzalez, A. H., Eisenhardt, P. R., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bautz, M., Dey, A., Forman, William R., Gettings, D., Hickox, R. C., Jannuzi, B. T., Jones, C., Mancone, C., Miller, E. D., Moustakas, L. A., Ruel, J., Snyder, G., and Zeimann, G. 2011. "X-ray Emission from Two Infrared-selected Galaxy Clusters at z > 1.4 in the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 732 33. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/33. 2011
- Voevodkin, Alexey, Borozdin, Konstantin, Heitmann, Katrin, Habib, Salman, Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Mescheryakov, Alexander, Hornstrup, Allan, and Burenin, Rodion. 2010. "Fossil Systems in the 400d Cluster Catalog." The Astrophysical Journal, 708 1376–1387. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/708/2/1376. 2010
- Krivonos, R., Revnivtsev, M., Tsygankov, S., Sazonov, S., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Pavlinsky, M., Churazov, Eugene, and Sunyaev, R. 2010. "INTEGRAL/IBIS 7-year All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey. I. Image reconstruction." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 519 107. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913814. 2010
- Nulsen, Paul E. J., Powell, S. L., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2010. "Model-independent X-ray Mass Determinations." The Astrophysical Journal, 722 55–64. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/55. 2010
- Green, Paul J., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Richards, G. T., Barkhouse, W. A., Constantin, A., Haggard, D., Karovska, M., Kim, D. -W, Kim, M., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Anderson, S. F., Mossman, A., Kashyap, Vinay L., Myers, A. C., Silverman, J. D., Wilkes, Belinda J., and Tananbaum, Harvey. 2009. "A Full Year's Chandra Exposure on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project." The Astrophysical Journal, 690 644–669. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/644. 2009
- Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Kravtsov, A. V., Burenin, R. A., Ebeling, H., Forman, William R., Hornstrup, A., Jones, C., Murray, Stephen S., Nagai, D., Quintana, H., and Voevodkin, A. 2009. "Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project III: Cosmological Parameter Constraints." The Astrophysical Journal, 692 1060–1074. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1060. 2009
- Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Burenin, R. A., Ebeling, H., Forman, William R., Hornstrup, A., Jones, C., Kravtsov, A. V., Murray, Stephen S., Nagai, D., Quintana, H., and Voevodkin, A. 2009. "Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project. II. Samples and X-Ray Data Reduction." The Astrophysical Journal, 692 1033–1059. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1033. 2009
- Sun, M., Voit, G. M., Donahue, M., Jones, C., Forman, William R., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2009. "Chandra Studies of the X-Ray Gas Properties of Galaxy Groups." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 1142–1172. 2009
- Schmidt, Fabian, Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Hu, Wayne. 2009. "Cluster constraints on f(R) gravity." Physical Review D, 80 83505. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.083505. 2009
- Revnivtsev, M., Sazonov, S., Churazov, Eugene, Forman, William R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Sunyaev, R. 2009. "Discrete sources as the origin of the Galactic X-ray ridge emission." Nature, 458 1142–1144. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07946. 2009
- Bode, Paul, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2009. "Exploring the Energetics of Intracluster Gas with a Simple and Accurate Model." The Astrophysical Journal, 700 989–999. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/989. 2009
- Malinovsky, A. M., Voevodkin, A. A., Lukash, V. N., Mikheeva, E. V., and Vikhlinin, Alexey A. 2008. "Cosmological constraints on the neutrino mass from CMB anisotropy and large-scale structure of the Universe." Astronomy Letters, 34 445–450. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773708070025. 2008
- Finoguenov, A., Ruszkowski, M., Jones, C., Brüggen, M., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Mandel, E. 2008. "In-Depth Chandra Study of the AGN Feedback in Virgo Elliptical Galaxy M84." The Astrophysical Journal, 686 911–917. https://doi.org/10.1086/591662. 2008
- Churazov, Eugene, Forman, William R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Tremaine, S., Gerhard, O., and Jones, C. 2008. "Measuring the non-thermal pressure in early-type galaxy atmospheres: a comparison of X-ray and optical potential profiles in M87 and NGC 1399." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 388 1062–1078. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13507.x. 2008
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- Reid, Paul B., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Cotroneo, Vincenzo, Davis, William, Johnson-Wilke, Raegan L., McMuldroch, Stuart, Ramsey, Brian D., Schwartz, Daniel A., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Wilke, Rudeger H. T. 2013. "Development status of adjustable grazing incidence optics for 0.5 arc second x-ray imaging." from Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series. 8861, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026429. 2013
- O'Dell, Stephen L., Swartz, Douglas A., Tice, Neil W., Plucinsky, Paul P., Grant, Catherine E., Marshall, Herman L., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Tennant, Allyn F. 2013. "Modeling contamination migration on the Chandra X-ray Observatory II." from Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series. 8859, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024541. 2013
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