Mapping the Dark Matter in Clusters
Abstract
Massive clusters of galaxies gravitationally shear the images of faint background galaxies. At large impact parameters the shear is weak, but can still be measured, to a reasonable degree of significance, as a statistical anisotropy of the faint galaxy images. We describe techniques for measuring the shear and discuss the interpretation of the shear field. We have applied this analysis to ms1224+007. We find a clear detection of the shear, but, puzzlingly, we find a mass about three times that obtained by application of the virial theorem, and obtain a very large mass-to-light ratio. Similar results have been obtained by other groups, and we discuss their implications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9407004,
title = {Mapping the Dark Matter in Clusters},
author = {Nick Kaiser and Gordon Squires and Greg Fahlman and David Woods},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9407004},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, plain TeX, available by anonymous ftp inc figs from ftp.cita.utoronto.ca in /cita/nick/meribel.ps