Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-01-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
15 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14654.x
We propose a novel technique to refine the modelling of galaxy clusters mass distribution using gravitational lensing. The idea is to combine the strengths of both "parametric" and "non-parametric" methods to improve the quality of the fit. We develop a multi-scale model that allows sharper contrast in regions of higher density where the number of constraints is generally higher. Our model consists of (i) a multi-scale grid of radial basis functions with physically motivated profiles and (ii) a list of galaxy-scale potentials at the location of the cluster member galaxies. This arrangement of potentials of different sizes allows to reach a high resolution for the model with a minimum number of parameters. We apply our model to the well studied cluster Abell 1689. We estimate the quality of our mass reconstruction with a Bayesian MCMC sampler. For a selected subset of multiple images, we manage to halve the errors between the predicted and observed image positions compared to previous studies. This owes to the flexibility of multi-scale models at intermediate scale between cluster and galaxy scale. The software developed for this paper is part of the public lenstool package which can be found at www.oamp.fr/cosmology/lenstool.
Jullo Eric
Kneib Jean Paul
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