Weak lensing measurements of dark matter halos of galaxies from COMBO-17

Details Weak lensing measurements of dark matter halos of galaxies from COMBO-17 Weak lensing measurements of dark matter halos of galaxies from COMBO-17

Aug 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006a%26a...455..441k&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 455, Issue 2, August IV 2006, pp.441-451

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Gravitational Lensing, Galaxies:, Fundamental Parameters, Galaxies: Statistics, Cosmology: Dark, Matter

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We present mass estimates for dark matter halos around galaxies from the COMBO-17 survey using weak gravitational lensing. COMBO-17, with photometry in 17 optical filters, provides precise photometric redshifts and spectral classification for objects with R<24. This permits to select and sort lens and source galaxies by their redshifts and lens luminosity or color, which bypasses many uncertainties in other weak lensing analyses arising from broadly estimated source and lens redshifts. We study the shear created by dark matter halos around 12 000 galaxy lenses at redshifts z_d=0.2-0.7 by fitting the mass normalization of either singular isothermal spheres (SIS) or Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profiles to background source orientations around the whole lens sample. We also consider halos around blue and red subsamples separately and constrain the scaling of halo mass with light. For the NFW model, we find virial masses M_vir^*=3.9× 1011h-1 M&sun; for blue and M_vir^*=7.1× 1011h-1 M&sun; for red galaxies of L_star=1010h-2 L&sun;, respectively. The 1-σ uncertainty on log M_vir* for the whole lens sample is about 0.2. We compare our results to those obtained from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Taking differences in the actual modelling into account, we find very good agreement with these surveys.

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