Zhang, Y;
Jeltema, T;
Hollowood, DL;
Everett, S;
Rozo, E;
Farahi, A;
Bermeo, A;
... Wester, W; + view all
(2019)
Dark Energy Surveyed Year 1 results: calibration of cluster mis-centring in the redMaPPer catalogues.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 487
(2)
pp. 2578-2593.
10.1093/mnras/stz1361.
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Abstract
The centre determination of a galaxy cluster from an optical cluster finding algorithm can be offset from theoretical prescriptions or N-body definitions of its host halo centre. These offsets impact the recovered cluster statistics, affecting both richness measurements and the weak lensing shear profile around the clusters. This paper models the centring performance of the redMaPPer cluster finding algorithm using archival X-ray observations of redMaPPer-selected clusters. Assuming the X-ray emission peaks as the fiducial halo centres, and through analysing their offsets to the redMaPPer centres, we find that ∼75 ± 8 per cent of the redMaPPer clusters are well centred and the mis-centred offset follows a Gamma distribution in normalized, projected distance. These mis-centring offsets cause a systematic underestimation of cluster richness relative to the well-centred clusters, for which we propose a descriptive model. Our results enable the DES Y1 cluster cosmology analysis by characterizing the necessary corrections to both the weak lensing and richness abundance functions of the DES Y1 redMaPPer cluster catalogue.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dark Energy Surveyed Year 1 results: calibration of cluster mis-centring in the redMaPPer catalogues |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stz1361 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1361 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | galaxies: clusters: general, dark energy, X-rays: galaxies: clusters |
| 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/10083314 |
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