2025MNRAS.540.2877P -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 540, 2877-2893 (2025/July-2)
Kinematic lensing inference - II. Cluster lensing with ℴ(1) galaxies.
PRANJAL R.S., HUFF E., KRAUSE E., EIFLER T., EVERETT S., HUANG Y.-H. and XU J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present the first detection of a cluster lensing signal with 'kinematic lensing' (KL), a novel weak lensing method that combines photometry, spectroscopy, and the Tully-Fisher relation to enable shear measurements with individual source galaxies. This is the second paper in a two-part series aimed at measuring a KL signal from data. The first paper describes the inference pipeline, which jointly forward models galaxy imaging and spectroscopy, and demonstrates unbiased shear inference with simulated data. This paper presents measurements of the lensing signal from the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. We obtain spectroscopic observations of background disc galaxies in the cluster field selected from the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) Subaru catalogue. The final sample consists of three source galaxies while the remaining are rejected due to insufficient signal-to-noise, spectroscopic failures, and inadequately sampled rotation curves. We apply the KL inference pipeline to the three sources and find the shear estimates to be in broad agreement with traditional weak lensing measurements. The typical shear measurement uncertainty for our sources is $\sigma (g_+)\approx 0.026$, which represents approximately a 10-fold improvement over the weak lensing shape noise. We identify target selection and observing strategy as the key avenues of improvement for future KL programmes.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
gravitational lensing: weak - methods: statistical - galaxies: clusters: general - large-scale structure of Universe
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