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We extend our analyses of the dark matter (DM) distribution in relaxed clusters to the case of Abell 383, a luminous X-ray cluster at z=0.189 with a dominant central galaxy and numerous strongly-lensed features. Following our earlier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew B. Newman , Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis , David J. Sand

Strong lensing studies can provide detailed mass maps of the inner regions even in dynamically active galaxy clusters. It is shown that proper modelling of the intracluster medium, i.e. the main baryonic component, can play an important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Sereno , M. Lubini , Ph. Jetzer

We present weak lensing mass estimates of seven shear-selected galaxy cluster candidates from the Deep Lens Survey. The clusters were previously identified as mass peaks in convergence maps of 8.6 sq. deg of R band imaging, and followed up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Alexandra Abate , D. Wittman , V. E. Margoniner , S. L. Bridle , Perry Gee , J. Anthony Tyson , Ian P. Dell Antonio

Weak lensing applied to deep optical images of clusters of galaxies provides a powerful tool to reconstruct the distribution of the gravitating mass associated to these structures. We use the shear signal extracted by an analysis of deep…

We propose a novel technique to refine the modelling of galaxy clusters mass distribution using gravitational lensing. The idea is to combine the strengths of both "parametric" and "non-parametric" methods to improve the quality of the fit.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib

Results are presented from the analysis of ROSAT HRI and PSPC observations of the CNOC subsample of the EMSS high redshift galaxy clusters. X-ray surface brightness profiles of 14 clusters with $0.17 < z < 0.55$ are constructed and fit to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aaron D. Lewis , E. Ellingson , Simon L. Morris , R. G. Carlberg

We examine the inner mass distribution of the relaxed galaxy cluster Abell 383 in deep 16-band HST/ACS+WFC3 imaging taken as part of the CLASH multi-cycle treasury program. Our program is designed to study the dark matter distribution in 25…

We present weak lensing results for 12 distant clusters determined from images obtained with the refurbished HST. We detect the signature of gravitational lensing in 11 of the 12 clusters; the clusters span nearly an order of magnitude in…

We apply a new non-parametric technique to reconstruct, with uncertainties, the projected mass distribution of the inner region of Abell 2218, using combined strong and weak lensing constraints from multiple-image systems and arclets with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hanadi M. AbdelSalam , Prasenjit Saha , Liliya L. R. Williams

We combine spatially resolved ASCA temperature data with ROSAT imaging data to constrain the total mass distribution in the cluster A401, assuming that the cluster is in hydrostatic equilibrium. We obtain a total mass within the X-ray core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Nevalainen , M. Markevitch , W. R. Forman

We report on the detection of dark matter in the cluster Abell 2218 using the weak gravitational distortion of background galaxies. We find a highly significant, coherent detection of the distortion in the images of the background galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Squires , N. Kaiser , A. Babul , G. Fahlman , D. Woods , D. M. Neumann , H. Böhringer

(Abridged) We measure the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 within 0.3 Mpc/h_70 of the cluster centre using its strong lensing effect on 32 background galaxies. The multiple images are based on those of Broadhurst et al. 2005…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Halkola , S. Seitz , M. Pannella

We present a deep X-ray ROSAT/HRI observation of the rich cluster-lens Abell 2390 and the analysis of the gas and matter distribution in the cluster. The X-ray centroid coincides with the location of the central cD galaxy, and the core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Pierre , J. F. Le Borgne , G. Soucail , J. P. Kneib

[Abridged] We present a comparison between weak-lensing (WL) and X-ray mass estimates of a sample of numerically simulated clusters. The sample consists on the 20 most massive objects at redshift z=0.25 and Mvir > 5 x 10^{14} Msun h^{-1}.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Rasia , M. Meneghetti , R. Martino , S. Borgani , A. Bonafede , K. Dolag , S. Ettori , D. Fabjan , C. Giocoli , P. Mazzotta , J. Merten , M. Radovich , L. Tornatore

We present a reconstruction of the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 at z = 0.18 using detected strong lensing features from deep HST/ACS observations and extensive ground based spectroscopy. Earlier analyses have reported up…

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates. Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak

Abell 1689 is a galaxy cluster at $z=0.183$ where previous measurements of its mass using various techniques gave discrepant results. We present a new detailed measurement of the mass with the data based on X-ray observations with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. E. Andersson , G. M. Madejski

Gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies has been detected on scales ranging from $\sim10^{-1}$ Mpc to $\sim10$ Mpc, namely, arcs/arclets, weak lensing and quasar-cluster associations. This allows us to derive an overall radius matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiang-Ping Wu , Li-Zhi Fang

We study density cusps in the center of clusters of galaxies to reconcile X-ray mass estimates with gravitational lensing masses. For various mass density models with cusps we compute X-ray surface brightness distribution, and fit them to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nobuyoshi Makino , Katsuaki Asano

We present a new gravitational lens model of the Hubble Frontier Fields cluster Abell 370 ($z = 0.375$) using imaging and spectroscopy from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based spectroscopy. We combine constraints from a catalog of 1344…