The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)
LoVoCCS. II. Weak Lensing Mass Distributions, Red-sequence Galaxy Distributions, and Their Alignment with the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in 58 Nearby X-Ray-luminous Galaxy Clusters
- Shenming Fu,
- Ian Dell’Antonio,
- Zacharias Escalante,
- Jessica Nelson,
- Anthony Englert,
- Søren Helhoski,
- Rahul Shinde,
- Julia Brockland,
- Philip LaDuca,
- Christelyn Larkin,
- Lucca Paris,
- Shane Weiner,
- William K. Black,
- Ranga-Ram Chary,
- Douglas Clowe,
- M. C. Cooper,
- Megan Donahue,
- August Evrard,
- Mark Lacy,
- Tod Lauer,
- Binyang Liu,
- Jacqueline McCleary,
- Massimo Meneghetti,
- Hironao Miyatake,
- Mireia Montes,
- Priyamvada Natarajan,
- Michelle Ntampaka,
- Elena Pierpaoli,
- Marc Postman,
- Jubee Sohn,
- David Turner,
- Keiichi Umetsu,
- Yousuke Utsumi,
- Gillian Wilson
Affiliations
- Shenming Fu
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA ; [email protected]
- Ian Dell’Antonio
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Zacharias Escalante
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Jessica Nelson
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Anthony Englert
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Søren Helhoski
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Rahul Shinde
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Julia Brockland
- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Philip LaDuca
- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Christelyn Larkin
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- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Lucca Paris
- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Shane Weiner
- Department of Physics, Brown University , 182 Hope Street, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- William K. Black
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University , N283 ESC, Provo, UT 84602, USA
- Ranga-Ram Chary
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, MC 314-6, Caltech , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Douglas Clowe
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University , 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
- M. C. Cooper
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, Irvine CA, USA
- Megan Donahue
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- August Evrard
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Mark Lacy
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Tod Lauer
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA ; [email protected]
- Binyang Liu
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- Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
- Jacqueline McCleary
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University , 110 Forsyth Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Massimo Meneghetti
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- Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, I stituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129, Bologna, Italy; National Institute for Nuclear Physics , viale Berti Pichat 6/2, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
- Hironao Miyatake
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- Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University , Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan; Division of Physics and Astrophysical Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University , Nagoya 464-8602, Japan; Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS) , The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- Mireia Montes
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , c/ Vía Láctea s/n, E-38205 - La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna , E-38205 - La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Priyamvada Natarajan
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- Department of Astronomy, Yale University , 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Physics, Yale University , 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Michelle Ntampaka
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Elena Pierpaoli
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- University of Southern California , Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
- Marc Postman
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Jubee Sohn
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- Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University , 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; SNU Astronomy Research Center, Seoul National University , 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- David Turner
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- Keiichi Umetsu
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- Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) , No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Yousuke Utsumi
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- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University , 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Gillian Wilson
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- Department of Physics, University of California Merced , 5200 Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad67c6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 974,
no. 1
p. 69
Abstract
The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey is an ongoing program to observe nearly a hundred low-redshift X-ray-luminous galaxy clusters (redshifts 0.03 10 ^44 erg s ^−1 ) with the Dark Energy Camera, capturing data in the u , g , r , i , z bands with a 5 σ point source depth of approximately 25th–26th AB magnitudes. Here, we map the aperture masses in 58 galaxy cluster fields using weak gravitational lensing. These clusters span a variety of dynamical states, from nearly relaxed to merging systems, and approximately half of them have not been subject to detailed weak lensing analysis before. In each cluster field, we analyze the alignment between the 2D mass distribution described by the aperture mass map, the 2D red-sequence (RS) galaxy distribution, and the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG). We find that the orientations of the BCG and the RS distribution are strongly aligned throughout the interiors of the clusters: the median misalignment angle is 19° within 2 Mpc. We also observe the alignment between the orientations of the RS distribution and the overall cluster mass distribution (by a median difference of 32° within 1 Mpc), although this is constrained by galaxy shape noise and the limitations of our cluster sample size. These types of alignment suggest long-term dynamical evolution within the clusters over cosmic timescales.
Keywords
- Weak gravitational lensing
- Astronomy data analysis
- Surveys
- Galaxy clusters
- Observational cosmology
- Dark matter
