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C. T. Mpetha

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Euclid preparation. The shape of halo profiles in $\Lambda$CDM and non-standard cosmologies

We study the shape of three-dimensional and projected dark-matter halo profiles extracted from cosmological $N$-body simulations in $\Lambda$CDM and non-standard cosmologies, using the \texttt{DUSTGRAIN-PF} and \texttt{DEMNUni} suites. The models considered include massive neutrinos, $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity, and dynamical dark energy. By comparing density, mass, velocity-dispersion, and excess-surface-density profiles up to $5\,r_{500{\rm c}}$, we quantify the differential imprint of non-standard physics on halo structure in view of \textit{Euclid} cluster WL studies. Our main analysis is performed at $z=1.1$, a high-redshift regime where the weak-lensing signal-to-noise starts to degrade, providing a conservative stress test for detectability; for \texttt{DUSTGRAIN-PF} we additionally analyse $z=0.5$ and $z=0.3$ snapshots. In low-mass haloes ($M_{\rm 200c}<7\times10^{13}\,M_\odot$), $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity produces deviations of order $10\,\%$ in projected and three-dimensional profiles, especially in the outskirts where screening is less efficient. Massive neutrinos partially reduce this signal, reflecting the competition between free streaming and fifth-force-enhanced growth. Dynamical dark energy and massive-neutrino cosmologies generally induce smaller, few-percent deviations, with the largest effects again found in low-mass haloes and at large radii. Under simplified assumptions for \Euclid WL, detecting such profile differences at $z=1.1$ requires stacks of $\sim10^5$ haloes, while a few thousands haloes may be sufficient at $z\lesssim0.5$. This further calls for the need of integrating such precise modelling of non-standard effects -- along with other observational effects -- in any likelihood involving \textit{Euclid} WL masses to avoid non-negligible systematic biases. Concentration--mass relations show weaker cosmology dependence, typically at the $\sim5\,\%$ level. [...]

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Gravitational redshifting of galaxies in the SPIDERS cluster catalogue

Data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) are searched for a detection of the gravitational redshifting of light from $\sim\!20\,000$ galaxies in $\sim\!2500$ galaxy clusters using three definitions of the cluster centre: its Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG), the redMaPPer identified Central Galaxy (CG), or the peak of X-ray emission. Distributions of velocity offsets between galaxies and their host cluster's centre, found using observed redshifts, are created. The quantity $\hatΔ$, the average of the radial velocity difference between the cluster members and the cluster systemic velocity, reveals information on the size of a combination of effects on the observed redshift, dominated by gravitational redshifting. The change of $\hatΔ$ with radial distance is predicted for SPIDERS galaxies in General Relativity (GR), and $f(R)$ gravity, and compared to the observations. The values of $\hatΔ=-13.5\pm4.7$ km s$^{-1}$, $\hatΔ=-12.5\pm5.1$ km s$^{-1}$, and $\hatΔ=-18.6\pm4.8$ km s$^{-1}$ for the BCG, X-ray and CG cases respectively broadly agree with the literature. There is no significant preference of one gravity theory over another, but all cases give a clear detection ($>2.5σ$) of $\hatΔ$. The BCG centroid is deemed to be the most robust method in this analysis, due to no well defined central redshift when using an X-ray centroid, and CGs identified by redMaPPer with no associated spectroscopic redshift. For future gravitational redshift studies, an order of magnitude more galaxies, $\sim\!500\,000$, will be required-a possible feat with the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Euclid and eROSITA.

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