COOL-LAMPS. VII. Quantifying Strong-lens Scaling Relations with 177 Cluster-scale Strong Gravitational Lenses in DECaLS
Abstract
We estimate the Einstein-radius-enclosed total mass for 177 cluster-scale strong gravitational lenses identified by the ChicagO Optically selected Lenses Located At the Margins of Public Surveys (COOL-LAMPS) collaboration with lens redshifts ranging from using the brightest-cluster-galaxy (BCG) redshift and an observable proxy for the Einstein radius. We constrain the Einstein-radius-enclosed luminosity and stellar mass by fitting parametric spectral energy distributions to aperture photometry from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey in the -, -, and -band Dark Energy Camera filters. We find that the BCG redshift, enclosed total mass, and enclosed luminosity are strongly correlated and well described by a planar relationship in 3D space. We find that the enclosed total mass and stellar mass are correlated with a logarithmic slope of , and the enclosed total mass and stellar-to-total mass fraction are correlated with a logarithmic slope of . In tandem with the small radii within which these slopes are constrained, this may suggest invariance in baryon conversion efficiency and feedback strength as a function of cluster-centric radii in galaxy clusters. Additionally, the correlations described here should have utility in ranking strong-lensing candidates in upcoming imaging surveys -- such as Rubin/Legacy Survey of Space and Time -- in which an algorithmic treatment of strong lenses will be needed due to the sheer volume of data these surveys will produce.
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@article{arxiv.2401.08575,
title = {COOL-LAMPS. VII. Quantifying Strong-lens Scaling Relations with 177 Cluster-scale Strong Gravitational Lenses in DECaLS},
author = {Simon D. Mork and Michael D. Gladders and Gourav Khullar and Keren Sharon and Nathalie Chicoine and Aidan P. Cloonan and Håkon Dahle and Diego Garza and Rowen Glusman and Katya Gozman and Gabriela Horwath and Benjamin C. Levine and Olina Liang and Daniel Mahronic and Viraj Manwadkar and Michael N. Martinez and Alexandra Masegian and Owen S. Matthews Acuña and Kaiya Merz and Yue Pan and Jorge A. Sanchez and Isaac Sierra and Daniel J. Kavin Stein and Ezra Sukay and Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi and Kiyan Tavangar and Ruoyang Tu and Grace Wagner and Erik A. Zaborowski and Yunchong Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.08575},
year = {2025}
}
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22 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables