Virial masses of galaxy clusters in the post-Newtonian limit

2012/10/20 by Mahmood Roshan, Roshan, Mahmood
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1210.5583

To appear in the proceedings of Conference: C12-07-01.1

arxiv created 2012/10/20 · arxiv updated 2012/10/23

Abstract

We estimate virial masses of galaxy clusters using the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) virial theorem. Also, we show explicitly that post-Newtonian corrections can not address the mass discrepancy in the galaxy clusters.

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