We present a stacked weak lensing analysis of 27 richness selected galaxy clusters at 0.40⩽z⩽0.62 in the CODEX survey. The fields were observed in 5 bands with the CFHT. We measure the stacked surface mass density profile with a 14σ significance in the radial range 0.1<RMpch−1<2.5. The profile is well described by the halo model, with the main halo term following an NFW profile and including the off-centring effect. We select the background sample using a conservative colour-magnitude method to reduce the potential systematic errors and contamination by cluster member galaxies. We perform a Bayesian analysis for the stacked profile and constrain the best-fit NFW parameters M200c=6.6−0.8+1.0×1014h−1M⊙ and c200c=3.7−0.6+0.7. The off-centring effect was modelled based on previous observational results found for redMaPPer SDSS clusters. Our constraints on M200c and c200c allow us to investigate the consistency with numerical predictions and select a concentration-mass relation to describe the high richness CODEX sample. Comparing our best-fit values for M200c and c200c with other observational surveys at different redshifts, we find no evidence for evolution in the concentration-mass relation, though it could be mitigated by particular selection functions. Similar to previous studies investigating the X-ray luminosity-mass relation, our data suggests a lower evolution than expected from self-similarity.
@article{arxiv.1612.06871,
title = {CODEX Weak Lensing: Concentration of Galaxy Clusters at z ~ 0.5},
author = {N. Cibirka and E. S. Cypriano and F. Brimioulle and D. Gruen and T. Erben and L. van Waerbeke and L. Miller and A. Finoguenov and C. Kirkpatrick and J. Patrick Henry and E. Rykoff and E. Rozo and R. Dupke and J-P. Kneib and H. Shan and P. Spinelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06871},
year = {2017}
}