J/ApJ/703/2217 Lensing measurement of SDSS galaxy clusters. I. (Sheldon+, 2009)
Cross-correlation weak lensing of SDSS galaxy clusters.
I. Measurements.
Sheldon E.S., Johnston D.E., Scranton R., Koester B.P., McKay T.A.,
Oyaizu H., Cunha C., Lima M., Lin H., Frieman J.A., Wechsler R.H.,
Annis J., Mandelbaum R., Bahcall N.A., Fukugita M.
<Astrophys. J., 703, 2217-2231 (2009)>
=2009ApJ...703.2217S 2009ApJ...703.2217S
ADC_Keywords: Gravitational lensing ; Clusters, galaxy
Keywords: dark matter - galaxies: clusters: general - gravitational lensing -
large-scale structure of universe
Abstract:
This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect
caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The
photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes
∼130000 objects between redshift 0.1 and 0.3, ranging in size from
small groups to massive clusters. We split the clusters into bins of
richness and luminosity and stack the surface density contrast to
produce mean radial profiles. The mean profiles are detected over a
range of scales, from the inner halo (25kpc/h) well into the
surrounding large-scale structure (30Mpc/h), with a significance of 15
to 20 in each bin. The signal over this large range of scales is best
interpreted in terms of the cluster-mass cross-correlation function.
We pay careful attention to sources of systematic error, correcting
for them where possible. The resulting signals are calibrated to the
∼10% level, with the dominant remaining uncertainty being the redshift
distribution of the background sources.
Description:
The clusters used in this study are drawn from a superset of the
recently released MaxBCG catalog of Koester et al. (2007, Cat.
J/ApJ/660/239, 2007ApJ...660..221K 2007ApJ...660..221K). The galaxies used for cluster
selection and shear measurement were drawn from the SDSS. The area
used for this study is somewhat smaller than the SDSS data release 4
(Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2006, Cat. II/267; superseded by Cat.
II/294).
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table1.dat 348 588 The ΔΣ data for MaxBCG clusters
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See also:
II/294 : The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 7 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2009)
J/ApJ/703/2232 : Weak lensing of SDSS galaxy clusters. III. (Sheldon+, 2009)
J/ApJ/690/670 : The Sloan lens ACS Survey. VIII. (Treu+, 2009)
J/ApJ/660/239 : MaxBCG catalog of 13823 galaxy clusters from SDSS (Koester+,
2007)
J/ApJ/668/643 : Multiply imaged gravitational lens systems (Limousin+, 2007)
J/ApJ/641/169 : Spectroscopy in lens fields (Momcheva+, 2006)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1 A1 --- Type [L/N] Bin type: Number, N, or Luminosity, L
3- 14 E12.6 --- Bin Mean number or luminosity in bin (1)
16- 27 E12.6 Mpc Rad Radius in units of Mpc/h
29- 41 E13.6 Msun/pc2 DelSig Lensing measurement ΔΣ (2)
43- 54 E12.6 Msun/pc2 e_DelSig The 1σ error in Delsig (2)
56- 68 E13.6 --- Corr0 C0 column value of correlation matrix
70- 82 E13.6 --- Corr1 C1 column value of correlation matrix
84- 96 E13.6 --- Corr2 C2 column value of correlation matrix
98-110 E13.6 --- Corr3 C3 column value of correlation matrix
112-124 E13.6 --- Corr4 C4 column value of correlation matrix
126-138 E13.6 --- Corr5 C5 column value of correlation matrix
140-152 E13.6 --- Corr6 C6 column value of correlation matrix
154-166 E13.6 --- Corr7 C7 column value of correlation matrix
168-180 E13.6 --- Corr8 C8 column value of correlation matrix
182-194 E13.6 --- Corr9 C9 column value of correlation matrix
196-208 E13.6 --- Corr10 C10 column value of correlation matrix
210-222 E13.6 --- Corr11 C11 column value of correlation matrix
224-236 E13.6 --- Corr12 C12 column value of correlation matrix
238-250 E13.6 --- Corr13 C13 column value of correlation matrix
252-264 E13.6 --- Corr14 C14 column value of correlation matrix
266-278 E13.6 --- Corr15 C15 column value of correlation matrix
280-292 E13.6 --- Corr16 C16 column value of correlation matrix
294-306 E13.6 --- Corr17 C17 column value of correlation matrix
308-320 E13.6 --- Corr18 C18 column value of correlation matrix
322-334 E13.6 --- Corr19 C19 column value of correlation matrix
336-348 E13.6 --- Corr20 C20 column value of correlation matrix
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Note (1): The units are 1010L☉/h2 for the Luminosity bins.
Note (2): In units of h*M☉/pc2.
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
References:
Johnston et al. Paper II. 2007arXiv0709.1159J 2007arXiv0709.1159J
Sheldon et al. Paper III. 2009ApJ...703.2232S 2009ApJ...703.2232S Cat. J/ApJ/703/2232
Rozo et al. 2010ApJ...708..645R 2010ApJ...708..645R
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 04-Nov-2011