RELICS: A Very Large ($\theta_{E}\sim40"$) Cluster Lens -- RXC J0032.1+1808
Abstract
Extensive surveys with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) over the past decade, targeting some of the most massive clusters in the sky, have uncovered dozens of galaxy-cluster strong lenses. The massive cluster strong-lens scale is typically to , with only a handful of clusters known with Einstein radii or above (for , nominally). Here we report another very large cluster lens, RXC J0032.1+1808 (), the second richest cluster in the redMapper cluster catalog and the 85th most massive cluster in the Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich catalog. With our Light-Traces-Mass and fully parametric (dPIEeNFW) approaches, we construct strong lensing models based on 18 multiple images of 5 background galaxies newly identified in the \textit{Hubble} data mainly from the \textit{Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey} (RELICS), in addition to a known sextuply imaged system in this cluster. Furthermore, we compare these models to Lenstool and GLAFIC models that were produced independently as part of the RELICS program. All models reveal a large effective Einstein radius of (), owing to the obvious concentration of substructures near the cluster center. Although RXC J0032.1+1808 has a very large critical area and high lensing strength, only three magnified high-redshift candidates are found within the field targeted by RELICS. Nevertheless, we expect many more high-redshift candidates will be seen in wider and deeper observations with \textit{Hubble} or \emph{JWST}. Finally, the comparison between several algorithms demonstrates that the total error budget is largely dominated by systematic uncertainties.
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@article{arxiv.1912.02702,
title = {RELICS: A Very Large ($\theta_{E}\sim40"$) Cluster Lens -- RXC J0032.1+1808},
author = {Ana Acebron and Adi Zitrin and Dan Coe and Guillaume Mahler and Keren Sharon and Masamune Oguri and Maruša Bradač and Larry Bradley and Brenda Frye and Christine J. Forman and Victoria Strait and Yuanyuan Su and Keiichi Umetsu and Felipe Andrade-Santos and Roberto J. Avila and Daniela Carrasco and Catherine Cerny and Nicole G. Czakon and William A. Dawson and Carter Fox and Austin T. Hoag and Kuang-Han Huang and Traci L. Johnson and Shotaro Kikuchihara and Daniel Lam and Lorenzo Lovisari and Ramesh Mainali and Mario Nonino and Pascal A. Oesch and Sara Ogaz and Masami Ouchi and Matthew Past and Rachel Paterno-Mahler and Avery Peterson and Russell E. Ryan and Brett Salmon and Daniel P. Stark and Sune Toft and Michele Trenti and Benedetta Vulcani and Brian Welch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02702},
year = {2020}
}
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23 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ