Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
16 pages, 5 figures. ApJ accepted
Scientific paper
We explore the mass distribution of material associated with galaxies from the observation of gravitational weak lensing for the galaxy mass correlation function with the aid of $N$-body simulations of dark matter. The latter is employed to unfold various contributions that contribute to the integrated line of sight mass density. We conclude that galaxies have no definite edges of the matter distribution, extending to the middle to neighbouring galaxies with the density profile roughly $r^{-2.4}$ beyond the virial radius. The mass distributed beyond the virial radius (gravitationally bound radius) explains the gap seen in the mass density estimates, the global value $\Omega_m\sim 0.27$ and typically $\Omega_{\rm gal} \sim 0.15$ from the luminosity density multiplied by the mass to light ratio. We suggest to use a physical method of gravitational lensing to characterise galaxy samples rather than characterise them with photometric means.
Fukugita Masataka
Masaki Shogo
Yoshida Naoki
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