A new finite-field mass reconstruction algorithm

Details A new finite-field mass reconstruction algorithm A new finite-field mass reconstruction algorithm

1998-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802051v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 6 figures included; Fortran subroutines can be requested after paper will be accepted

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A new method for the reconstruction of the projected mass distribution of clusters of galaxies from the image distortion of background galaxies is discussed. This method is essentially equivalent to the one we developed previously, i.e., the noise-filtering method, but has several practical advantages: (1) It is much easier to implement; (2) it can be easily applied to wide-field images, since the constraints on the number of gridpoints are much weaker than for the previous method, and (3) it can be easily generalized to more complicated field geometries, such as that of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard HST. We have tested the performance of our new inversion method (for which a FORTRAN-77 implementation is available from the authors) using simulated data, demonstrating that it fares very favourably.

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