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Substructures within Substructures in the Complex Post-Merging System A514 Unveiled by High-Resolution Magellan/Megacam Weak Lensing

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-04-09 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Abell 514 (A514) at z=0.071z=0.071 is an intriguing merging system exhibiting highly elongated (~1 Mpc) X-ray features and three large-scale (300~500 kpc) bent radio jets. To dissect this system with its multi-wavelength data, it is critical to robustly identify and quantify its dark matter (DM) substructures. We present a weak-lensing analysis of A514 using deep Magellan/Megacam observations. Combining two optical band filter imaging data obtained under optimal seeing (~0.''6) and leveraging the proximity of A514, we achieve a high source density of ~46\mboxarcmin246\mbox{arcmin}^{-2} or ~6940Mpc2\mathrm{6940Mpc^{-2}}, which enables high-resolution mass reconstruction. We unveil the complex DM substructures of A514, which are characterized by the NW and SE subclusters separated by ~0.70.7Mpc, each exhibiting a bimodal mass distribution. The total mass of the NW subcluster is estimated to be M200cNW=1.080.22+0.24×1014M\mathrm{M^{NW}_{200c} = 1.08_{-0.22}^{+0.24} \times 10^{14} M_{\odot}} and is further resolved into the eastern (M200cNWE=2.61.1+1.4×1013M)\mathrm{M^{NW_E}_{200c} = 2.6_{-1.1}^{+1.4} \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}}) and western (M200cNWW=7.12.0+2.3×1013M\mathrm{M^{NW_W}_{200c} = 7.1_{-2.0}^{+2.3} \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}}) components. The mass of the SE subcluster is M200cSE=1.550.26+0.28×1014M\mathrm{M^{SE}_{200c} = 1.55_{-0.26}^{+0.28} \times 10^{14} M_{\odot}}, which is also further resolved into the northern (M200cSEN=2.91.3+1.8×1013M\mathrm{M^{SE_N}_{200c} = 2.9_{-1.3}^{+1.8} \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}}) and southern (M200cSES=8.52.6+3.0×1013M\mathrm{M^{SE_S}_{200c} = 8.5_{-2.6}^{+3.0} \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}}) components. These four substructures coincide with the A514 brightest galaxies and are detected with significances ranging from 3.4σ\sigma to 4.8σ\sigma. Comparison of the dark matter substructures with the X-ray distribution suggests that A514 might have experienced an off-axis collision, and the NW and SE subclusters are currently near their apocenters.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.04321,
  title  = {Substructures within Substructures in the Complex Post-Merging System A514 Unveiled by High-Resolution Magellan/Megacam Weak Lensing},
  author = {Eunmo Ahn and M. James Jee and Wonki Lee and Hyungjin Joo and John ZuHone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04321},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to ApJ

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