Clash: Weak-lensing shear-and-magnification analysis of 20 galaxy clusters

  • Keiichi Umetsu
  • , Elinor Medezinski
  • , Mario Nonino
  • , Julian Merten
  • , Marc Postman
  • , Massimo Meneghetti
  • , Megan Donahue
  • , Nicole Czakon
  • , Alberto Molino
  • , Stella Seitz
  • , Daniel Gruen
  • , Doron Lemze
  • , Italo Balestra
  • , Narciso Benítez
  • , Andrea Biviano
  • , Tom Broadhurst
  • , Holland Ford
  • , Claudio Grillo
  • , Anton Koekemoer
  • , Peter Melchior
  • Amata Mercurio, John Moustakas, Piero Rosati, Adi Zitrin

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Abstract

We present a joint shear-and-magnification weak-lensing analysis of a sample of 16 X-ray-regular and 4 high-magnification galaxy clusters at 0.19 ≲ z ≲ 0.69 selected from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). Our analysis uses wide-field multi-color imaging, taken primarily with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. From a stacked-shear-only analysis of the X-ray-selected subsample, we detect the ensemble-averaged lensing signal with a total signal-to-noise ratio of ≃ 25 in the radial range of 200-3500 kpc h -1, providing integrated constraints on the halo profile shape and concentration-mass relation. The stacked tangential-shear signal is well described by a family of standard density profiles predicted for dark-matter-dominated halos in gravitational equilibrium, namely, the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW), truncated variants of NFW, and Einasto models. For the NFW model, we measure a mean concentration of c200c = 4.01-0.32+0.35 at an effective halo mass of M200c = 1.34-0.09+0.10 × 1015 M. We show that this is in excellent agreement with Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) predictions when the CLASH X-ray selection function and projection effects are taken into account. The best-fit Einasto shape parameter is αE = 0.191-0.068+0.071 , which is consistent with the NFW-equivalent Einasto parameter of ∼0.18. We reconstruct projected mass density profiles of all CLASH clusters from a joint likelihood analysis of shear-and-magnification data and measure cluster masses at several characteristic radii assuming an NFW density profile. We also derive an ensemble-averaged total projected mass profile of the X-ray-selected subsample by stacking their individual mass profiles. The stacked total mass profile, constrained by the shear+magnification data, is shown to be consistent with our shear-based halo-model predictions, including the effects of surrounding large-scale structure as a two-halo term, establishing further consistency in the context of the ΛCDM model.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number163
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume795
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 10 2014
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

  • cosmology: observations
  • dark matter
  • galaxies: clusters: general
  • gravitational lensing: weak

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