Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters

Details Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters

2001-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103029v1

Astrophys.J. 554 (2001) 881-887

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/321395

We present a lensing study of 42 galaxy clusters imaged in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Cluster candidates are selected optically from SDSS imaging data and confirmed for this study by matching to X-ray sources found independently in the ROSAT all sky survey (RASS). Five color SDSS photometry is used to make accurate photometric redshift estimates that are used to rescale and combine the lensing measurements. The mean shear from these clusters is detected to 2 h-1 Mpc at the 7-sigma level, corresponding to a mass within that radius of 4.2 +/- 0.6 x 10^14 h-1 M_sun. The shear profile is well fit by a power law with index -0.9 +/- 0.3, consistent with that of an isothermal density profile. This paper demonstrates our ability to measure ensemble cluster masses from SDSS imaging data.

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