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Lensing magnification and stacked shear measurements of galaxy clusters rely on measuring the density of background galaxies behind the clusters. The most common ways of measuring this quantity ignore the fact that some fraction of the sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Melanie Simet , Rachel Mandelbaum

We critically examine the methodology behind the claimed observational detection of halo assembly bias using optically selected galaxy clusters by Miyatake et al. (2016) and More et al. (2016). We mimic the optical cluster detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 Tomomi Sunayama , Surhud More

We present a stacked weak-lensing analysis of an approximately mass-selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at 0.15<z<0.3, based on observations with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. We develop a new method for selecting lensed background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Nobuhiro Okabe , Graham P. Smith , Keiichi Umetsu , Masahiro Takada , Toshifumi Futamase

We present results of weak lensing cluster counts obtained from 11 sq.deg SuprimeCam data. Although the area is much smaller than previous work dealing with weak lensing peak statistics, the number density of galaxies usable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takashi Hamana , Junya Sakurai , Michitaro Koike , Lance Miller

We explore the ability of weak lensing surveys to locate massive clusters. We use both analytic models of dark matter halos and mock weak lensing surveys generated from a large cosmological N-body simulation. The analytic models describe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Hamana , Masahiro Takada , Naoki Yoshida

The splashback radius $R_{\rm sp}$, the apocentric radius of particles on their first orbit after falling into a dark matter halo, has recently been suggested as a physically motivated halo boundary that separates accreting from orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-17 Benedikt Diemer , Philip Mansfield , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Surhud More

Cosmological constraints from current and upcoming galaxy cluster surveys are limited by the accuracy of cluster mass calibration. In particular, optically identified galaxy clusters are prone to selection effects that can bias the weak…

(Abridged) We quantify the bias and scatter in galaxy cluster masses and concentrations derived from an idealised mock weak gravitational lensing (WL) survey, and their effect on the cluster mass-concentration relation. For this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yannick M. Bahé , Ian G. McCarthy , Lindsay J. King

We quantify the uncertainty in weak lensing mass estimates of clusters of galaxies, caused by distant (uncorrelated) large scale structure along the line of sight. We find that the effect is fairly small for deep observations (20<R<26) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Henk Hoekstra

This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes ~130,000 objects between redshift 0.1 and…

We study the bias and scatter in mass measurements of galaxy clusters resulting from fitting a spherically-symmetric Navarro, Frenk & White model to the reduced tangential shear profile measured in weak lensing observations. The reduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Matthew R. Becker , Andrey V. Kravtsov

The density profiles of dark matter haloes contain rich information about their growth history and physical properties. One particularly interesting region is the splashback radius, $R_{\rm sp}$, which marks the transition between particles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tae-hyeon Shin , Benedikt Diemer

Large-scale structure projections are an obstacle in converting the shear signal of clusters detected in weak-lensing maps into virial masses. However, this step is not necessary for constraining cosmology with the shear-peak abundance, if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Gary M. Bernstein

We report the results of a study of the distribution of galaxies in the projection along the radius ($R \leq 3R_{200c}$) for 157~groups and clusters of galaxies in the local Universe (0.01 < $z$ < 0.10) with line-of-sight velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Flera G. Kopylova , Alexander I. Kopylov

We perform a measurement of the mass--richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Tom McClintock , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler

Weak lensing measurements of cluster masses are necessary for calibrating mass-observable relations (MORs) to investigate the growth of structure and the properties of dark energy. However, the measured cluster shear signal varies at fixed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Daniel Gruen , Gary M. Bernstein , Tsz Yan Lam , Stella Seitz

Weak shear maps of the outer regions of clusters have been successfully used to map the distribution of mass at large radii from the cluster center. The typical smoothing lengths employed thus far preclude the systematic study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib

Non-gravitational interactions between dark matter particles with strong scattering, but relatively small annihilation and dissipation, has been proposed to match various observables on cluster and group scales. In this paper, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Arka Banerjee , Susmita Adhikari , Neal Dalal , Surhud More , Andrey Kravtsov

In the hierarchical evolution framework of cosmology, larger halos grow through matter accretion and halo mergers. To clarify the halo evolution, we need to define the halo mass and radius physically. However, the pseudo-evolution problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Weiwei Xu , Huanyuan Shan , Ran Li , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Nan Li , Chaoli Zhang

The splashback radius is one popular method of constraining the size of galaxy clusters, often measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile. However, measuring the splashback radius through the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Talia M. O'Shea , Josh Borrow , Stephanie O'Neil , Mark Vogelsberger