Weak Lensing Mass Reconstruction of the Galaxy Cluster Abell 209
| Autor: | Stephane Paulin-Henriksson, Amata Mercurio, Ugo Becciani, C. P. Haines, Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu, Mario Radovich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Physics
Solar mass Mass distribution media_common.quotation_subject Astrophysics (astro-ph) FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics Radius Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Asymmetry Galaxy Redshift Virial theorem Space and Planetary Science Weak gravitational lensing Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics media_common |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0701799 |
| Popis: | Weak lensing applied to deep optical images of clusters of galaxies provides a powerful tool to reconstruct the distribution of the gravitating mass associated to these structures. We use the shear signal extracted by an analysis of deep exposures of a region centered around the galaxy cluster Abell 209, at redshift z=0.2, to derive both a map of the projected mass distribution and an estimate of the total mass within a characteristic radius. We use a series of deep archival R-band images from CFHT-12k, covering an area of 0.3 deg^2. We determine the shear of background galaxy images using a new implementation of the modified Kaiser-Squires-Broadhurst pipeline for shear determination, which we has been tested against the ``Shear TEsting Program 1 and 2'' simulations. We use mass aperture statistics to produce maps of the 2 dimensional density distribution, and parametric fits using both Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) and singular-isothermal-sphere profiles to constrain the total mass. The projected mass distribution shows a pronounced asymmetry, with an elongated structure extending from the SE to the NW. This is in general agreement with the optical distribution previously found by other authors. A similar elongation was previously detected in the X-ray emission map, and in the distribution of galaxy colours. The circular NFW mass profile fit gives a total mass of M_{200} = 7.7^{+4.3}_{-2.7} 10^{14} solar masses inside the virial radius r_{200} = 1.8\pm 0.3 Mpc. The weak lensing profile reinforces the evidence for an elongated structure of Abell 209, as previously suggested by studies of the galaxy distribution and velocities. Comment: accepted by A&A, 15 pages, 11 figures |
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