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<abstract xmlns="http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0">In this thesis I describe a statistically robust multi-wavelength study on 21 X-ray luminous cluster cores at &#13;
0.15&lt;z&lt;0.3, spanning X-ray to near Infra-Red (NIR) wavelengths, and using weak lens analysis of SNAPSHOT data from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys. Substructures found in the "non-parametric" lensing mass maps are compared with K-band luminosity and Chandra X-ray flux maps. I construct parameterised mass models using a Bayesian statistics based method. Mass-observable scaling relations are used to explore segregation in cluster properties between cool core and non cool core clusters.&#13;
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The spatial mass distribution is better constrained than the weak lens mass, which suffers a low mass bias due to smoothing systematics. Assuming a constant bias for a constant smoothing scale, the K-band luminosity  scales with mass similarly to the X-ray luminosity.  I also demonstrate the detection of the  weak lens signal of a galaxy group outside the HST:ACS field of view (A3192). I conclude that the analysis algorithm in this thesis could be useful in the analysis of cluster observations from future surveys such as PANSTARRS and DES.&#13;
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