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In this talk I review some of the key questions that weak lensing observations of clusters can potentially answer, and sketch the progress that has been made to date in extracting quantitative estimates of masses and density profiles. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick Kaiser

We describe the first spectroscopic tomographic (spectrotomographic) weak lensing measurement for a galaxy cluster based only on background galaxies with spectroscopically determined redshifts. We use the massive cluster A2029 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-21 Ian Dell'Antonio , Jubee Sohn , Margaret J. Geller , Jacqueline McCleary , Anja von der Linden

We present a statistical weak-lensing magnification analysis on an optically selected sample of 3029 \texttt{CAMIRA} galaxy clusters with richness $N>15$ at redshift $0.2\leq z <1.1$ in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. We use two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 I-Non Chiu , Keiichi Umetsu , Ryoma Murata , Elinor Medezinski , Masamune Oguri

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…

Cosmological inference from cluster number counts is systematically limited by the accuracy of the mass calibration, i.e. the empirical determination of the mapping between cluster selection observables and halo mass. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Sebastian Grandis , Sebastian Bocquet , Joseph J. Mohr , Matthias Klein , Klaus Dolag

The Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS, Smith et al.) is a systematic multi-wavelength survey of >100 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters (0.14<z<0.3) selected from the ROSAT all sky survey. We used data on 37 LoCuSS clusters from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Y. Zhang , A. Finoguenov , H. Boehringer , J. -P. Kneib , G. P. Smith , R. Kneissl , N. Okabe , H. Dahle

We present a new method for estimating galaxy cluster masses using weak-lensing magnification. The effect of weak-lensing magnification introduces a correlation between the position of foreground galaxy clusters and the density of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 C. Murray , C. Combet , C. Payerne , M. Ricci

We present the first measurement of the mass function of galaxy clusters based directly on cluster masses derived from observations of weak gravitational lensing. To investigate the degree of sample incompleteness resulting from the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-06 H. Dahle

We present a Subaru weak lensing measurement of ACT-CL J0022.2-0036, one of the most luminous, high-redshift (z=0.81) Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) clusters discovered in the 268 deg^2 equatorial region survey of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.…

We present wide-field (167 deg$^2$) weak lensing mass maps from the Hyper Supreme-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). We compare these weak lensing based dark matter maps with maps of the distribution of the stellar mass associated with…

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

Weak gravitational lensing is an important tool to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters, as it allows us to directly access their projected surface mass density along the line-of-sight (LOS) in a manner largely independent of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Constantin Payerne , Corentin Hanser , Calum Murray , Nathan Amouroux , Céline Combet

In this paper, we present a new method to select the faint, background galaxies used to derive the mass of galaxy clusters by weak lensing. The method is based on the simultaneous analysis of the shear signal, that should be consistent with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 I. Formicola , M. Radovich , M. Meneghetti , P. Mazzotta , A. Grado , C. Giocoli

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

Context. The large-scale mass distribution around dark matter haloes hosting galaxy clusters provides sensitive cosmological information. Aims. In this work, we make use of a large photometric galaxy cluster sample, constructed from the…

We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

We report on the weak lensing detection of a filament between two galaxy clusters at $z=0.55$, CL0015.9+1609 and RX J0018.3+1618. We conduct weak lensing analysis of deep multi-band Subaru/Suprime-Cam images with $Lensfit$. The weak lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-24 Yuichi Higuchi , Masamune Oguri , Masayuki Tanaka , Junya Sakurai

Lines of sight with multiple, projected, cluster-scale halos have high total masses and complex lens plane interactions that can boost the area of magnification, or etendue, making detection of faint background sources more likely than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Mark Ammons , Kenneth C. Wong , Ann I. Zabludoff , Charles R. Keeton

We present a numerical investigation of nonlinear cluster lens reconstruction using weak lensing mass mapping. Recent advances in imaging and shear estimation have pushed reliable reduced shear measurements closer to cluster cores, making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuan Shi , Li Cui