Cluster Mass Reconstruction by a Weak Shear Field

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2000-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004400v2

Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 133 (1999) 53-84

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

32 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTPS.133.53

The tidal gravitational field of galaxy clusters causes a coherent distortion of the images of background sources. Since the distribution of image distortions, namely the shear field, traces the local gravitational potential of a deflector, it can be used to reconstruct the two-dimensional mass distribution of clusters of galaxies. Moreover, the shear field can provide unique information on the redshift distribution of high-redshift galaxies. In this review we summarize recently-developed parameter-free methods of cluster-mass reconstruction based on the shear field, and we apply a mass-reconstruction method to the cluster Abell 370 at redshift 0.375.

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