English

CFHTLenS: A Weak Lensing Shear Analysis of the 3D-Matched-Filter Galaxy Clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-22 v2

Abstract

We present the cluster mass-richness scaling relation calibrated by a weak lensing analysis of >18000 galaxy cluster candidates in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). Detected using the 3D-Matched-Filter cluster-finder of Milkeraitis et al., these cluster candidates span a wide range of masses, from the small group scale up to 1015M\sim10^{15} M_{\odot}, and redshifts 0.2 z\lesssim z\lesssim 0.9. The total significance of the stacked shear measurement amounts to 54σ\sigma. We compare cluster masses determined using weak lensing shear and magnification, finding the measurements in individual richness bins to yield 1σ\sigma compatibility, but with magnification estimates biased low. This first direct mass comparison yields important insights for improving the systematics handling of future lensing magnification work. In addition, we confirm analyses that suggest cluster miscentring has an important effect on the observed 3D-MF halo profiles, and we quantify this by fitting for projected cluster centroid offsets, which are typically \sim 0.4 arcmin. We bin the cluster candidates as a function of redshift, finding similar cluster masses and richness across the full range up to zz \sim 0.9. We measure the 3D-MF mass-richness scaling relation M200=M0(N200/20)βM_{200} = M_0 (N_{200} / 20)^\beta. We find a normalization M0(2.70.4+0.5)×1013MM_0 \sim (2.7^{+0.5}_{-0.4}) \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}, and a logarithmic slope of β1.4±0.1\beta \sim 1.4 \pm 0.1, both of which are in 1σ\sigma agreement with results from the magnification analysis. We find no evidence for a redshift-dependence of the normalization. The CFHTLenS 3D-MF cluster catalogue is now available at cfhtlens.org.

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@article{arxiv.1409.3571,
  title  = {CFHTLenS: A Weak Lensing Shear Analysis of the 3D-Matched-Filter Galaxy Clusters},
  author = {Jes Ford and Ludovic Van Waerbeke and Martha Milkeraitis and Clotilde Laigle and Hendrik Hildebrandt and Thomas Erben and Catherine Heymans and Henk Hoekstra and Thomas Kitching and Yannick Mellier and Lance Miller and Ami Choi and Jean Coupon and Liping Fu and Michael J. Hudson and Konrad Kuijken and Naomi Robertson and Barnaby Rowe and Tim Schrabback and Malin Velander},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3571},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3D-MF cluster catalog is NOW AVAILABLE at cfhtlens.org. Magnification-shear mass comparison in Figure 10. 19 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to MNRAS