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Mass Modeling of Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 Using Strong and Weak Lensing

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-06-05 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We present a gravitational lensing model of MACS J1149.5+2223 using ultra-deep Hubble Frontier Fields imaging data and spectroscopic redshifts from HST grism and VLT/MUSE spectroscopic data. We create total mass maps using 38 multiple images (13 sources) and 608 weak lensing galaxies, as well as 100 multiple images of 31 star-forming regions in the galaxy that hosts Supernova Refsdal. We find good agreement with a range of recent models within the HST field of view. We present a map of the ratio of projected stellar mass to total mass (ff_{\star}), and find that the stellar mass fraction for this cluster peaks on the primary BCG. Averaging within a radius of 0.3 Mpc, we obtain a value of f=0.0120.003+0.004\langle f_{\star} \rangle = 0.012^{+0.004}_{-0.003}, consistent with other recent results for this ratio in cluster environments, though with a large global error (up to δf=0.005\delta f_{\star} = 0.005) primarily due to the choice of an IMF. We compare values of ff_{\star} and measures of star formation efficiency for this cluster to other Hubble Frontier Fields clusters studied in the literature, finding that MACS1149 has a higher stellar mass fraction than these other clusters, but a star formation efficiency typical of massive clusters.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00698,
  title  = {Mass Modeling of Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 Using Strong and Weak Lensing},
  author = {Emily Quinn Finney and Maruša Bradač and Kuang-Han Huang and Austin Hoag and Takahiro Morishita and Tim Schrabback and Tommaso Treu and Kasper Borello Schmidt and Brian C. Lemaux and Xin Wang and Charlotte Mason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00698},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ May 23, 2018