Detailed Cluster Mass and Light profiles of A1703, A370 and RXJ1347-11 from Deep Subaru Imaging

Details Detailed Cluster Mass and Light profiles of A1703, A370 and RXJ1347-11 from Deep Subaru Imaging Detailed Cluster Mass and Light profiles of A1703, A370 and RXJ1347-11 from Deep Subaru Imaging

2009-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4791v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.405:257-273,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

18 pages, 14 figures, accepted by MNRAS; minor changes made in reply to referee, added evolutionary color tracks for clarity.

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Weak lensing work can be badly compromised by unlensed foreground and cluster members which dilute the true lensing signal. We show how the lensing amplitude in multi-colour space can be harnessed to securely separate cluster members from the foreground and background populations for three massive clusters, A1703 (z=0.258), A370 (z=0.375) and RXJ1347-11 (z=0.451) imaged with Subaru. The luminosity functions of these clusters when corrected for dilution, show similar faint-end slopes, \alpha ~= -1.0, with no marked faint-end upturn to our limit of M_R ~= -15.0, and only a mild radial gradient. In each case, the radial profile of the M/L ratio peaks at intermediate radius, ~=0.2r_{vir}, at a level of 300-500(M/L_R)_\odot, and then falls steadily towards ~100(M/L_R)_{\odot} at the virial radius, similar to the mean field level. This behaviour is likely due to the relative paucity of central late-type galaxies, whereas for the E/S0-sequence only a mild radial decline in M/L is found for each cluster. We discuss this behaviour in the context of detailed simulations where predictions for tidal stripping may now be tested accurately with observations.

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