Substructures within Substructures in the Complex Post-Merging System A514 Unveiled by High-Resolution Magellan/Megacam Weak Lensing
Abstract
Abell 514 (A514) at is an intriguing merging system exhibiting highly elongated (~1 Mpc) X-ray features and three large-scale (300~500 kpc) bent radio jets. To dissect this system with its multi-wavelength data, it is critical to robustly identify and quantify its dark matter (DM) substructures. We present a weak-lensing analysis of A514 using deep Magellan/Megacam observations. Combining two optical band filter imaging data obtained under optimal seeing (~0.''6) and leveraging the proximity of A514, we achieve a high source density of ~ or ~, which enables high-resolution mass reconstruction. We unveil the complex DM substructures of A514, which are characterized by the NW and SE subclusters separated by ~Mpc, each exhibiting a bimodal mass distribution. The total mass of the NW subcluster is estimated to be and is further resolved into the eastern ( and western () components. The mass of the SE subcluster is , which is also further resolved into the northern () and southern () components. These four substructures coincide with the A514 brightest galaxies and are detected with significances ranging from 3.4 to 4.8. Comparison of the dark matter substructures with the X-ray distribution suggests that A514 might have experienced an off-axis collision, and the NW and SE subclusters are currently near their apocenters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.04321,
title = {Substructures within Substructures in the Complex Post-Merging System A514 Unveiled by High-Resolution Magellan/Megacam Weak Lensing},
author = {Eunmo Ahn and M. James Jee and Wonki Lee and Hyungjin Joo and John ZuHone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04321},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
15 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to ApJ