Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
submitted to APJ, 25 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
We present a non-parametric measure of the ellipticity and the alignment of the dark matter halos in Abell 901/902 supercluster. This super-cluster is a system of four separate peaks in a $0.5^{\circ}\times0.5^{\circ}$ field of view. We map the mass distribution of each individual peak using an improved version of Particle Based Lensing (PBL) and measure the ellipticity of the dark matter halos associated with two of the peaks directly from the mass map and by fitting them to a singular isothermal ellipse. The parametric and non-parametric measurements are consistent for A901b while the position angle for the Southwest Group is different for the two techniques. We account for this discrepancy to substructure present in the Southwest Peak. We estimate an axis ratio of $0.37\pm 0.1$ for A901b and $0.54^{+0.08}_{-0.09}$ for the Southwest Group.
Deb Sanghamitra
Goldberg David M.
Heymans Catherine
Morandi Andrea
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