Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
11 pages, 13 figures, Accepted MNRAS
Scientific paper
We construct two linear filtering techniques based on weak gravitational lensing to constrain the inner slope $\alpha$ of the density profile of dark-matter halos. Both methods combine all available information into an estimate of this single number. Under idealised assumptions, $\alpha$ is constrained to ~15% if the halo concentration c is known, and to < 30% if not. We argue that the inevitable degeneracy between density-profile slope and halo concentration cannot be lifted under realistic conditions, and show by means of Fisher-matrix methods which linear combination of $\alpha$ and c is best constrained by our filtering of lensing data. This defines a new parameter, called P1, which is then constrained to ~15% for a single massive halo. If the signals of many halos can be stacked, their density profiles should thus be well constrained by the linear filters proposed here with the advantagebe insensitive to the cluster substructures.
Bartelmann Matthias
Maturi Matteo
Viola Massimo
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