Mass modelling of Abell 2634: avoiding the interloper bias

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2007-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0712.2698v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of XIX Rencontres de Blois

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Using an example of the Abell 2634 galaxy cluster we discuss the effect of contamination of kinematic data by interlopers and its impact on mass modelling. The cluster data reveal rich substructure along the line of sight. We demonstrate that it is necessary to apply a few independent methods of interloper removal in order to obtain a reliable sample of cluster members. We present results of three such methods which are commonly used in the literature and have been recently extensively tested on simulated data. Only two of them lead to consistent and reliable samples of cluster galaxies. For both of them we provide parameters of the best-fitting NFW density profile by fitting an isotropic solution of the Jeans equation to the velocity dispersion profiles.

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