Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-01-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
10 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
The amplitude of weak lensing should increase with source distance, rising steeply behind a lens and saturating at high redshift, providing a model-independent means of measuring cosmic geometry. We measure the amplitude of weak lensing with redshift for three massive clusters, A370 (z=0.375), ZwCl0024+17 (z=0.395) and RXJ1347-11 (z=0.451), using deep, three-colour Subaru imaging. We define the depth of lensed populations with reference to the COSMOS and GOODS fields, providing a consistency check of photo-z estimates over a wide range of redshift and magnitude. The predicted distance-redshift relation is followed well for the deepest dataset, A370, for a wide range of cosmologies, and is consistent with less accurate data for the other two clusters. Scaling this result to a new survey of ~25 massive clusters should provide a useful cosmological constraint on w, complementing existing techniques, with distance measurements covering the untested redshift range, 1
Benítez Narciso
Broadhurst Tom
Medezinski Elinor
Taylor Andy
Umetsu Keiichi
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