We present the first weak lensing calibration of μ⋆, a new galaxy cluster mass proxy corresponding to the total stellar mass of red and blue members, in two cluster samples selected from the SDSS Stripe 82 data: 230 redMaPPer clusters at redshift 0.1≤z<0.33 and 136 Voronoi Tessellation (VT) clusters at 0.1≤z<0.6. We use the CS82 shear catalog and stack the clusters in μ⋆ bins to measure a mass-observable power law relation. For redMaPPer clusters we obtain M0=(1.77±0.36)×1014h−1M⊙, α=1.74±0.62. For VT clusters, we find M0=(4.31±0.89)×1014h−1M⊙, α=0.59±0.54 and M0=(3.67±0.56)×1014h−1M⊙, α=0.68±0.49 for a low and a high redshift bin, respectively. Our results are consistent, internally and with the literature, indicating that our method can be applied to any cluster finding algorithm. In particular, we recommend that μ⋆ be used as the mass proxy for VT clusters. Catalogs including μ⋆ measurements will enable its use in studies of galaxy evolution in clusters and cluster cosmology.
@article{arxiv.1708.03329,
title = {Weak-lensing calibration of a stellar mass-based mass proxy for redMaPPer and Voronoi Tessellation clusters in SDSS Stripe 82},
author = {Maria E. S. Pereira and Marcelle Soares-Santos and Martin Makler and James Annis and Huan Lin and Antonella Palmese and André Z. Vitorelli and Brian Welch and Gabriel B. Caminha and Thomas Erben and Bruno Moraes and Huanyuan Shan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03329},
year = {2018}
}
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Updated to be consistent with the published version