Magnification as a Probe of Dark Matter Halos at high redshift

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2010-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/1004.3793v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

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We propose a new approach for measuring the mass profile and shape of groups and clusters of galaxies, which uses lensing magnification of distant background galaxies. The main advantage of lensing magnification is that, unlike lensing shear, it relies on accurate photometric redshifts only and not galaxy shapes, thus enabling the study of the dark matter distribution with unresolved source galaxies. We present a feasibility study, using a real population of z > 2.5 Lyman Break Galaxies as source galaxies, and where, similar to galaxy-galaxy lensing, foreground lenses are stacked in order to increase the signal-to-noise. We find that there is an interesting new observational window for gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter halos at high redshift, which does not require measurement of galaxy shapes.

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