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Kaiser & Squires have proposed a technique for mapping the dark matter in galaxy clusters using the coherent weak distortion of background galaxy images caused by gravitational lensing. We investigate the effectiveness of this technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

This paper presents morphological type, membership, and U-V color for a sample of galaxies in the Coma cluster direction, complete down to M_B=-15.00 mag and extending down to M_B=-14.25 mag. We have examined 1155 objects from the GMP 1983…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Michard , S. Andreon

Based on weak lensing data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), in this paper we study the mass-concentration ($M$-$c$) relation for $\sim 200$ redMaPPer clusters in the fields. We extract the $M$-$c$ relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Wei Du , Zuhui Fan , Huanyuan Shan , Gong-Bo Zhao , Giovanni Covone , Liping Fu , Jean-Paul Kneib

We present optical measurements of the faint end of the luminosity function in the core of the Coma cluster. Dwarf galaxies are detected down to a limiting magnitude of R approx. 25.75 in images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. This…

We present weak lensing and X-ray analysis of 12 low mass clusters from the CFHTLenS and XMM-CFHTLS surveys. We combine these systems with high-mass systems from CCCP and low-mass systems from COSMOS to obtain a sample of 70 systems,…

As part of the HST/ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey, we have undertaken a Keck/LRIS spectroscopic campaign to determine membership for faint dwarf galaxies. In the process, we discovered a population of Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kristin Chiboucas , R. Brent Tully , Ronald O. Marzke , Steven Phillipps , James Price , Eric W. Peng , Neil Trentham , David Carter , Derek Hammer

We present a lensing study of 42 galaxy clusters imaged in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Cluster candidates are selected optically from SDSS imaging data and confirmed for this study by matching to X-ray sources found…

Measurement of the gravitational distortion of images of distant galaxies is rapidly becoming established as a powerful probe of the dark mass distribution in clusters of galaxies. With the advent of large mosaics of CCD's these methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick Kaiser , Gordon Squires , Greg Fahlman , David Woods , Tom Broadhurst

The COnstrain Dark Energy with X-ray clusters (CODEX) sample contains the largest flux limited sample of X-ray clusters at $0.35 < z < 0.65$. It was selected from ROSAT data in the 10,000 square degrees of overlap with BOSS, mapping a total…

Evidence for clustering within the Coma cluster is found by means of a multiscale analysis of the combined angular-redshift distribution. We have compiled a catalogue of 798 galaxy redshifts from published surveys from the region of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Gambera , A. Pagliaro , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani

We forecast the impact of weak lensing (WL) cluster mass calibration on the cosmological constraints from the X-ray selected galaxy cluster counts in the upcoming eROSITA survey. We employ a prototype cosmology pipeline to analyze mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Sebastian Grandis , Joseph J. Mohr , Joerg P. Dietrich , Sebastian Bocquet , Alexandro Saro , Matthias Klein , Maria Paulus , Raffaella Capasso

We present the results of a study of the average mass profile around galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. We use 45.5 deg^2 of R_C band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and define a sample of 1.2\times 10^5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

We present measurements of the masses of 20 X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts, determined from a weak lensing analysis of deep archival R-band data obtained using the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope. Compared to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Henk Hoekstra

The developments summarized with the name ``weak gravitational lensing'' have led to exciting possibilities to study the (statistical properties of the) dark matter distribution in the Universe. Concentrating on those aspects which require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schneider , Jean-Paul Kneib

Deep B- and R-band CCD images of the central ~700 arcmin^2 of the Coma cluster core have been used to measure the dwarf-galaxy population in Coma. In this paper, we describe a newly developed code for automated detection, photometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeff Secker , William E. Harris

We report on the detection of weak gravitational lensing of faint, distant background galaxies by Cl 1358+62, a cluster of galaxies at a redshift of z=0.33. The observations were made using the HST. The measured shear is consistent with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Hoekstra , M. Franx , K. Kuijken , G. Squires

We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 5 maps of the cosmic…

We have assembled a large data-set of 613 galaxy redshifts in the Coma cluster, the largest presently available for a cluster of galaxies. We have defined a sample of cluster members complete to b$_{26.5}=20.0$, using a membership criterion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Biviano , F. Durret , D. Gerbal , O. LeFevre , C. Lobo , A. Mazure , E. Slezak

We interpret and model the statistical weak lensing measurements around 130,000 groups and clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey presented by Sheldon et al. 2007 (Paper I). We present non-parametric inversions of the 2D shear…

The 3D mass distributions of galaxy clusters are generally triaxial, a geometry that is difficult to constrain from projected observations. In this work, we measure the projected halo shapes of clusters from their weak lensing signatures…