Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-07
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:496-508,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09726.x
In this paper the expected properties of the velocity fields of strongly lensed arcs behind galaxy clusters are investigated. The velocity profile along typical lensed arcs is determined by ray tracing light rays from a model source galaxy through parametric cluster toy-models consisting of individual galaxies embedded in a dark cluster halo. We find that strongly lensed arcs of high redshift galaxies show complex velocity structures that are sensitive to the details of the mass distribution within the cluster, in particular at small scales. From fits to the simulated imaging and kinematic data we demonstrate that reconstruction of the source velocity field is in principle feasible: two dimensional kinematic information obtained with Integral Field Units (IFU's) on large ground based telescopes in combination with adaptive optics will allow the reconstruction of rotation curves of lensed high redshift galaxies. This makes it possible to determine the mass-to-light ratios of galaxies at redshifts z>1 out to about 2-3 scale lengths with better than about 20% accuracy. We also discuss the possibilities of using two dimensional kinematic information along the arcs to give additional constraints on the cluster lens mass models.
Moeller Ole
Noordermeer Edo
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