Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-02-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
26 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication Astronomy and Astrophysics. Minor corrections implemented as requested by the r
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361/201016348
Context: In 2.2m MPG-ESO/WFI data we discovered several mass peaks through weak lensing, forming a possible supercluster at redshift 0.45. Through multi-colour wide-field imaging with CFHT/Megaprime and INT/WFC we identify early-type galaxies and trace the supercluster network with them. Through EMMI/NTT multi-object spectroscopy we verify the initial shear-selected cluster candidates. Using weak lensing we obtain mass estimates for the supercluster centre and the filaments. Results: We identified the centre of the SCL2243-0935 supercluster, MACS J2243-0935, which was found independently by Ebeling et al. (2010). 13 more clusters or overdensities are embedded in a filamentary network, half of them are already spectroscopically confirmed. Three (5-15) Mpc filaments are detected, and we estimate the global size of SCL2243 to 45x15x50 Mpc, making it one of the largest superclusters known at intermediate redshifts. Weak lensing yields r_200=(2.06+/-0.13) Mpc and M_200=(1.54+/-0.29)x10^15 M_sun for MACS J2243 with M/L=428+/-82, very similar to results from size-richness cluster scaling relations. Integrating the weak lensing surface mass density over the supercluster network (defined by increased i-band luminosity or g-i colours), we find (1.53+/-1.01)x10^15 M_sun and M/L=305+/-201 for the three main filaments, consistant with theoretical predictions. The filaments' projected surface mass density is 0.007-0.012, corresponding to 10-100 times the critical density. The greatly varying density of the cosmic web is also reflected in the mean colour of galaxies. Conclusions: SCL2243 is significantly larger and much more richly structured than other known superclusters such as A901/902 or MS0302 studied with weak lensing before. It is a text-book supercluster with little contamination along the line of sight, making it a perfect sandbox for testing new techniques probing the cosmic web.
Erben Thomas
Hildebrandt Hendrik
Kuijken Konrad
Schirmer Mischa
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