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利用SDSS星系团透镜探测暗物质晕椭圆性

A Detection of Dark Matter Halo Ellipticity using Galaxy Cluster Lensing in SDSS

Anna Kathinka Dalland Evans, Sarah Bridle

摘要:

利用引力透镜测量了斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)中孤立星系团的椭圆率。我们将星系团堆叠起来,旋转使由星系团成员星系的位置决定的椭圆长轴对齐。我们排除了来自中心0.5 h ^-1 Mpc的信号,以避免堆积排列和团簇成员污染的问题。我们拟合了一个椭圆形的NFW剖面,发现暗物质的轴比为f = b/a = 0.48 + 0.14 - 0.09(1 σ),并在99.6%的置信度下排除了f = 1,从而排除了球形晕。我们发现星团星系分布的椭圆率与等于暗物质椭圆率是一致的。如果我们在任一方向上将隔离标准改变50%,结果是相似的。

英文摘要:

We measure the ellipticity of isolated clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using gravitational lensing. We stack the clusters, rotating so that the major axes of the ellipses determined by the positions of cluster member galaxies are aligned. We exclude the signal from the central 0.5 h^-1 Mpc to avoid problems with stacking alignment and cluster member contamination. We fit an elliptical NFW profile and find an axis ratio for the dark matter of f = b/a = 0.48+0.14-0.09 (1 sigma), and rule out f=1 at 99.6 per cent confidence thus ruling out a spherical halo. We find that the ellipticity of the cluster galaxy distribution is consistent with being equal to the dark matter ellipticity. The results are similar if we change the isolation criterion by 50 per cent in either direction.

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