2009ApJ...699.1038O


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2009ApJ...699.1038O - Astrophys. J., 699, 1038-1052 (2009/July-2)

Subaru weak lensing measurements of four strong lensing clusters: are lensing clusters overconcentrated?

OGURI M., HENNAWI J.F., GLADDERS M.D., DAHLE H., NATARAJAN P., DALAL N., KOESTER B.P., SHARON K. and BAYLISS M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We derive radial mass profiles of four strong lensing selected clusters which show prominent giant arcs (Abell 1703, SDSS J1446+3032, SDSS J1531+3414, and SDSS J2111-0115), by combining detailed strong lens modeling with weak lensing shear measured from deep Subaru Suprime-cam images. Weak lensing signals are detected at high significance for all four clusters, whose redshifts range from z = 0.28 to 0.64. We demonstrate that adding strong lensing information with known arc redshifts significantly improves constraints on the mass density profile, compared with those obtained from weak lensing alone. While the mass profiles are well fitted by the universal form predicted in N-body simulations of the Λ-dominated cold dark matter model, all four clusters appear to be slightly more centrally concentrated (the concentration parameters cvir∼ 8) than theoretical predictions, even after accounting for the bias toward higher concentrations inherent in lensing-selected samples. Our results are consistent with previous studies which similarly detected a concentration excess, and increase the total number of clusters studied with the combined strong and weak lensing technique to 10. Combining our sample with previous work, we find that clusters with larger Einstein radii are more anomalously concentrated. We also present a detailed model of the lensing cluster Abell 1703 with constraints from multiple image families, and find the dark matter inner density profile to be cuspy with the slope consistent with -1, in agreement with expectations.

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Journal keyword(s): dark matter - galaxies: clusters: individual (Abell 1703, SDSS J1446+3032, SDSS J1531+3414, SDSS J2111-0115) - gravitational lensing

Simbad objects: 10

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Number of rows : 10
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 ZwCl 0024+1652 ClG 00 26 35.6 +17 09 32     18.35     ~ 648 1
2 ACO 370 ClG 02 39 50.5 -01 35 08           ~ 825 0
3 ACO 1689 ClG 13 11 29.5 -01 20 28           ~ 1178 0
4 SDSS J131505.23+514902.6 BiC 13 15 05.138 +51 49 02.28           ~ 10 1
5 ACO 1703 ClG 13 15 05.2 +51 49 02           ~ 157 0
6 ClG J1446+3032 ClG 14 46 34.02 +30 32 58.2           ~ 17 0
7 ZwCl 1529+3425 ClG 15 31 10.60 +34 14 25.0           ~ 31 0
8 ACO 2261 ClG 17 22 26.9 +32 07 58           ~ 370 0
9 ClG J2111-0115 ClG 21 11 19.34 -01 14 23.5           ~ 18 0
10 ClG 2137-2353 ClG 21 40 12.8 -23 39 27     18.5     ~ 390 0

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