Wide field weak lensing observations of A1689

被引:77
作者
Clowe, D
Schneider, P
机构
[1] Univ Bonn, Inst Astrophys & Extraterr Forsch, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
[2] Max Planck Inst Astrophys, D-85741 Garching, Germany
关键词
gravitational lensing; galaxies : clusters : individual : A1689; dark matter;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361:20011310
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a mass profile for A1689 from 0.13h(-1) Mpc < r<2h(-1) Mpc from a weak lensing analysis of a 34' x 34' R-band image from the ESO/MPG Wide Field Imager. We detect the gravitational shearing of a 23 < R<25.5 background galaxy population even at the edge of the image with a 4 sigma significance, and find a two-dimensional mass reconstruction has a 13.4 sigma significance mass peak centered on the brightest cluster galaxy. This peak is well fit by both a 1028 +/- 35 km s(-1) singular isothermal sphere and a r(200) = 1.28 Mpc; c = 6 "universal" CDM profile, although the "universal" CDM profile provides a better fit with 95.5% confidence. These mass measurements are lower than most of those derived by other means and we discuss possible reasons for weak lensing providing an underestimate of the true mass of the cluster. We find that the correction factors needed to reconcile the weak lensing mass models with the strong lensing Einstein radius would result is a much larger fraction of faint stars and foreground and cluster dwarf galaxies in the 23 < R<25.5 object catalog than is seen in other fields.
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