Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-02-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Version accepted by MNRAS. New figure showing power spectrum and auto correlation function of the residual map; other minor ch
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01877.x
The maximum-entropy method is applied to the problem of reconstructing the projected mass density of a galaxy cluster using its gravitational lensing effects on background galaxies. We demonstrate the method by reconstructing the mass distribution in a model cluster using simulated shear and magnification data to which Gaussian noise is added. The mass distribution is reconstructed directly and the inversion is regularised using the entropic prior for this positive additive distribution. For realistic noise levels, we find that the method faithfully reproduces the main features of the cluster mass distribution not only within the observed field but also slightly beyond it. We estimate the uncertainties on the reconstruction by calculating an analytic approximation to the covariance matrix of the reconstruction values of each pixel. This result is compared with error estimates derived from Monte-Carlo simulations for different noise realisations and found to be in good agreement.
Bridle Sarah L.
Hobson Michael P.
Lasenby Anthony N.
Saunders Richard
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