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The stellar and dark matter distributions in early-type galaxies measured by stacked weak gravitational lensing

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2026-05-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We investigate stellar mass and central dark matter density profiles of photometric luminous red galaxies with stellar masses of 10101012M\sim10^{10}-10^{12}M_\odot using weak gravitational lensing measurements from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program data obtained with the Subaru Telescope. By stacking weak lensing signals from a large number of galaxies, we obtain average tangential shear profiles down to 10kpc/h\sim 10\,\mathrm{kpc}/h, which are fitted assuming a two-component model consisting of stellar and dark matter components to constrain their central dark matter distribution. We find a preference for non-zero core radii of dark matter distributions in galaxies with stellar masses of 1011M\sim 10^{11}M_\odot. Our results imply a stronger feedback effect than that typically predicted by current hydrodynamical simulations. In addition, we provide a new constraint on the stellar-to-halo mass relation, where both stellar and halo masses are, for the first time, directly constrained by weak gravitational lensing. Our results prefer the stellar initial mass function (IMF) that is more bottom-heavy than the Salpeter IMF.

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@article{arxiv.2512.09342,
  title  = {The stellar and dark matter distributions in early-type galaxies measured by stacked weak gravitational lensing},
  author = {Momoka Fujikawa and Masamune Oguri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09342},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics