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透镜原星团的丰度

The abundance of lensing protoclusters

Anson D'Aloisio, Steven R. Furlanetto, Priyamvada Natarajan

摘要:

弱引力透镜为星系团的探测提供了一种潜在的强有力的方法。除了集群候选人,大量的对象,可能没有光学或X射线组件已被检测到剪切选定的样本。我们建立了一个分析模型来研究Weinberg & Kamionkowski(2002)的主张,即非维里化的原星系团占了相当数量的这些所谓的“暗”透镜。在我们的模型中,一个原星系团由一个被下落物质包围的小维里化区域组成。我们发现,为了使原星系团同时逃脱X射线探测并产生可探测到的弱透镜信号,它必须具有较小的维里质量(~10^{13} \Msun)和较大的总质量(~ 10^{15} \Msun),在维里半径之外具有相对平坦的密度分布。这类物体的特征是切向剪切剖面上升,远远超过维里半径。我们使用的半解析方法的基础上的偏移集形式主义,以估计丰度的透镜原团与低概率的X射线检测。我们发现它们是极其罕见的,在背景星系密度n = 30弧分^{-2}和内禀椭圆率色散为0.3的情况下,它们占总透镜的不到0.4%。我们的结论是,透镜原星团与不可检测的X射线光度太罕见,占了大量的黑暗透镜。

英文摘要:

Weak gravitational lensing provides a potentially powerful method for the detection of clusters. In addition to cluster candidates, a large number of objects with possibly no optical or X-ray component have been detected in shear-selected samples. We develop an analytic model to investigate the claim of Weinberg & Kamionkowski (2002) that unvirialised protoclusters account for a significant number of these so-called "dark" lenses. In our model, a protocluster consists of a small virialised region surrounded by in-falling matter. We find that, in order for a protocluster to simultaneously escape X-ray detection and create a detectable weak lensing signal, it must have a small virial mass (~10^{13} \Msun) and large total mass (~ 10^{15} \Msun), with a relatively flat density profile outside of the virial radius. Such objects would be characterized by rising tangential shear profiles well beyond the virial radius. We use a semi-analytic approach based on the excursion set formalism to estimate the abundance of lensing protoclusters with a low probability of X-ray detection. We find that they are extremely rare, accounting for less than 0.4 per cent of the total lenses in a survey with background galaxy density n = 30 arcmin^{-2} and an intrinsic ellipticity dispersion of 0.3. We conclude that lensing protoclusters with undetectable X-Ray luminosities are too rare to account for a significant number of dark lenses.

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