Hubble Space Telescope and Hyper-Suprime-Cam Weak-lensing Study of the Equal-mass Dissociative Merger CIZA J0107.7+5408

Abstract

A dissociative merger is formed by the interplay of ram pressure and gravitational forces, which can lead to a spatial displacement of the dark matter and baryonic components of the recently collided subclusters. CIZA J0107.7+5408 is a nearby ( z = 0.105) dissociative merger that hosts two X-ray brightness peaks and a bimodal galaxy distribution. Analyzing MMT/Hectospec observations, we investigate the line-of-sight and spatial distribution of cluster galaxies. Utilizing deep, high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging and large field-of-view Subaru Hyper-Suprime-Cam observations, we perform a weak-lensing analysis of CIZA J0107.7+5408. Our weak-lensing analysis detects a bimodal mass distribution that is spatially consistent with the cluster galaxies but significantly offset from the X-ray brightness peaks. Fitting two Navarro–Frenk–White halos to the lensing signal, we find an equal-mass merger with subcluster masses of ${M}_{200,\mathrm{NE}}={2.8}_{-1.1}^{+1.1}\times {10}^{14}$ M _⊙ and ${M}_{200,{SW}}={3.1}_{-1.2}^{+1.2}\times {10}^{14}$ M _⊙ . Moreover, the mass-to-light ratios of the subclusters, ${(M/L)}_{\mathrm{NE}}={571}_{-91}^{+89}\ {M}_{\odot }/{L}_{\odot ,B}$ and ${(M/L)}_{\mathrm{SW}}={564}_{-89}^{+87}\ {M}_{\odot }/{L}_{\odot ,B}$ , are found to be consistent with each other and within the range of mass-to-light ratios found for galaxy clusters.

Keywords

• Weak gravitational lensing
• Galaxy clusters
• Dark matter
• Hubble Space Telescope