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We report the weak lensing discovery, spectroscopic confirmation, and weak lensing tomography of a massive cluster of galaxies at $z=0.68$, demonstrating that shear selection of clusters works at redshifts high enough to be cosmologically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Wittman , V. E. Margoniner , J. A. Tyson , J. G. Cohen , I. P. Dell'Antonio , A. C. Becker

We study the radial total mass profiles of nine massive galaxy clusters ($M_\mathrm{200c}>5\times10^{14}$ M$_\odot$) in the redshift range $0.2 < z < 0.9$. These clusters were observed as part of the CLASH, HFF, BUFFALO, and CLASH-VLT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Enrico Maraboli , Claudio Grillo , Pietro Bergamini , Carlo Giocoli

In this paper we use deep CFHT and SUBARU $uBVRIz$ archival images of the Abell 383 cluster (z=0.187) to estimate its mass by weak lensing. To this end, we first use simulated images to check the accuracy provided by our KSB pipeline. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhuoyi Huang , Mario Radovich , Aniello Grado , Emanuella Puddu , Anna Romano , Luca Limatola , Liping Fu

WL measurements have well-known shear estimation biases, which can be partially corrected for with the use of image simulations. We present an analysis of simulated images that mimic HST/ACS observations of high-redshift galaxy clusters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 B. Hernandez-Martin , T. Schrabback , H. Hoekstra , N. Martinet , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , L. E. Bleem , M. D. Gladders , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , M. Bayliss

A joint analysis of the clustering of galaxies and their weak gravitational lensing signal is well-suited to simultaneously constrain the galaxy-halo connection as well as the cosmological parameters by breaking the degeneracy between…

While our current cosmological model places galaxy clusters at the nodes of a filament network (the cosmic web), we still struggle to detect these filaments at high redshifts. We perform a weak lensing study for a sample of 16 massive,…

We use weak gravitational lensing to measure the masses of five galaxy clusters selected from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey, with the primary goal of comparing these with the SPT Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray based mass…

Cluster gravitational lensing surveys like the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields survey will detect distant galaxies 10-50 times fainter than any yet discovered. Using these surveys to measure the luminosity function of such faint,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anson D'Aloisio , Priyamvada Natarajan , Paul R. Shapiro

We revisit the mass properties of the lensing cluster of galaxies MS2137-23 and assess the mutual agreement between cluster mass estimates based on lensing, X-rays and stellar dynamics. We perform a thorough elliptical lens modelling using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raphael Gavazzi

Weak lensing shear estimation typically results in per galaxy statistical errors significantly larger than the sought after gravitational signal of only a few percent. These statistical errors are mostly a result of shape-noise -- an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ofer M. Springer , Eran O. Ofek , Yair Weiss , Julian Merten

We perform a statistical weak lensing analysis of dark matter profiles around tracers of halo mass from galactic- to cluster-size halos. In this analysis we use 170,640 isolated ~L* galaxies split into ellipticals and spirals, 38,236 groups…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Christopher M. Hirata

We present measurements of the excess mass-to-light ratio measured aroundMaxBCG galaxy clusters observed in the SDSS. This red sequence cluster sample includes objects from small groups with masses ranging from ~5x10^{12} to ~10^{15}…

The measurement of the mass of clusters of galaxies is crucial for their use in cosmology and astrophysics. Masses can be efficiently determined with weak lensing (WL) analyses. I compiled Literature Catalogs of weak Lensing Clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Mauro Sereno

We present a weak lensing analysis of the double cluster system Abell 222 and Abell 223. The lensing reconstruction shows evidence for a possible dark matter filament connecting both clusters. The case for a filamentary connection between A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Dietrich , P. Schneider , D. Clowe , E. Romano-Diaz , J. Kerp

We present the methodology for a joint cosmological analysis of weak gravitational lensing from the fourth data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) and galaxy clustering from the partially overlapping BOSS and 2dFLenS surveys.…

With the halo catalog from the {\it Millennium Simulation}, we analyze the weak-lensing measured density profiles for clusters of galaxies, paying attention to the determination of the concentration-mass ($c$-$M$) relation which can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-08 Wei Du , Zuhui Fan

We present a weak-lensing analysis of the merging {\em Frontier Fields} (FF) cluster Abell~2744 using new Subaru/Suprime-Cam imaging. The wide-field lensing mass distribution reveals this cluster is comprised of four distinct substructures.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Elinor Medezinski , Keiichi Umetsu , Nobuhiro Okabe , Mario Nonino , Sandor Molnar , Richard Massey , Renato Dupke , Julian Merten

The concentration - virial mass relation is a well-defined trend that reflects the formation of structure in an expanding Universe. Numerical simulations reveal a marked correlation that depends on the collapse time of dark matter halos and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 Dominik Leier , Ignacio Ferreras , Andrea Negri , Prasenjit Saha

Merging galaxy clusters allows to study the different mass components, dark and baryonic, separately. Also their occurrence enables to test the $\Lambda$CDM scenario and they could put constrains in the self interacting cross section of the…