2019ApJ...887...76K -
Astrophys. J., 887, 76-76 (2019/December-2)
Precise mass determination of SPT-CL J2106-5844 the most massive cluster at z > 1.
KIM J., JEE M.J., PERLMUTTER S., HAYDEN B., RUBIN D., HUANG X., ALDERING G. and KO J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present a detailed high-resolution weak-lensing study of SPT-CL J2106-5844 at z = 1.132, claimed to be the most massive system discovered at z > 1 in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich survey. Based on the deep imaging data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we find that the cluster mass distribution is asymmetric, composed of a main clump and a subclump ∼640 kpc west thereof. The central clump is further resolved into two smaller northwestern and southeastern substructures separated by ∼150 kpc. We show that this rather complex mass distribution is more consistent with the cluster galaxy distribution than a unimodal distribution as previously presented. The northwestern substructure coincides with the brightest cluster galaxy and the X-ray peak while the southeastern one agrees with the location of the peak in number density. These morphological features and the comparison with the X-ray emission suggest that the cluster might be a merging system. We estimate the virial mass of the cluster to be M200c=(10.4–3.0+3.3±1.0)×1014M☉, where the second error bar is the systematic uncertainty. Our result confirms that the cluster SPT-CL J2106-5844 is indeed the most massive cluster at z > 1 known to date. We demonstrate the robustness of this mass estimate by performing a number of tests with different assumptions on the centroids, mass-concentration relations, and sample variance.
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Journal keyword(s):
Weak gravitational lensing - Dark matter - Galaxy clusters - Gravitational lensing - High-redshift galaxy clusters
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