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MEASURING DARK MATTER ELLIPTICITY OF A901/902 USING PARTICLE-BASED LENSING
The Astrophysical journal, v 721(1), pp 124-136
20 Sep 2010
Abstract
We present a non-parametric measure of the ellipticity and the alignment of the dark matter halos in the A901/902 supercluster. This supercluster is a system of four separate peaks in a 0 degrees.5 x 0 degrees.5 field of view. We map the mass distribution of each individual peak using an improved version of Particle-Based Lensing (PBL) and measure the ellipticity of the dark matter halos associated with two of the peaks directly from the mass map and by fitting them to a singular isothermal ellipse. The parametric and non-parametric measurements are consistent for A901b while the position angle for the Southwest Group is different for the two techniques. We account for this discrepancy to substructure present in the Southwest Peak. We estimate an axis ratio of 0.37 +/- 0.1 for A901b and 0.54(-0.09)(+ 0.08) for the Southwest Group.
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- Title
- MEASURING DARK MATTER ELLIPTICITY OF A901/902 USING PARTICLE-BASED LENSING
- Creators
- Sanghamitra Deb - Drexel UniversityDavid M. Goldberg - Drexel UniversityCatherine Heymans - Royal ObservatoryAndrea Morandi - Niels Bohr Institute
- Publication Details
- The Astrophysical journal, v 721(1), pp 124-136
- Publisher
- Iop Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- ATP NNG05GF61G / NASA; National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) 0908307 / NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF) Danish National Research Foundation; Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000282192900009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-78149246259
- Other Identifier
- 991019169573104721
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- Astronomy & Astrophysics