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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Weak lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters

McClintock, T; Varga, TN; Gruen, D; Rozo, E; Rykoff, ES; Shin, T; Melchior, P; ... Giannantonio, T; + view all (2019) Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Weak lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 482 (1) pp. 1352-1378. 10.1093/mnras/sty2711. Green open access

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Abstract

We constrain the mass-richness scaling relation of redMaPPer galaxy clusters identified in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data using weak gravitational lensing.We split clusters into 4 × 3 bins of richness λ and redshift z for λ ≥ 20 and 0.2 ≤ z ≤ 0.65 and measure the mean masses of these bins using their stacked weak lensing signal. By modelling the scaling relation as 〈M200m|λ, z〉=M0(λ/40)F((1+z)/1.35)G,we constrain the normalization of the scaling relation at the 5.0 per cent level, finding M0 = [3.081 ± 0.075(stat) ± 0.133(sys)] · 1014M⊙ at λ = 40 and z = 0.35. The recovered richness scaling index is F = 1.356 ± 0.051 (stat) ± 0.008 (sys) and the redshift scaling index G = -0.30 ± 0.30 (stat) ± 0.06 (sys). These are the tightest measurements of the normalization and richness scaling index made to date from a weak lensing experiment. We use a semi-analytic covariance matrix to characterize the statistical errors in the recovered weak lensing profiles. Our analysis accounts for the following sources of systematic error: shear and photometric redshift errors, cluster miscentring, cluster member dilution of the source sample, systematic uncertainties in the modelling of the halo-mass correlation function, halo triaxiality, and projection effects.We discuss prospects for reducing our systematic error budget, which dominates the uncertainty on M0. Our result is in excellent agreement with, but has significantly smaller uncertainties than, previous measurements in the literature, and augurs well for the power of the DES cluster survey as a tool for precision cosmology and upcoming galaxy surveys such as LSST, Euclid, and WFIRST.

Type: Article
Title: Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Weak lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2711
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2711
Language: English
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Keywords: gravitational lensing: weak, galaxies: clusters: general, cosmology: observations
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10063373
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