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利用重力弯曲确定质量和质量分布的新工具

A new tool to determine masses and mass profiles using gravitational flexion

Adrienne Leonard, Lindsay J. King

摘要:

在最近的一份出版物中,推导出了引力弯曲的孔径质量统计,并表明至少用模拟数据在探测星系团内的大质量结构和子结构方面是有效的。此外,有人建议,屈曲孔质量信号降至零的半径可以允许估计所检测到的结构的质量或密度分布。在本文中,我们更充分地探索这种可能性,考虑到两个质量模型的峰值信号和零信号轮廓的行为-奇异等温球和Navarro-Frenk-White轮廓-在不同的孔径大小,过滤器形状和质量浓度参数。我们证明了屈曲孔径质量统计在区分质量分布和浓度参数方面的有效性,并在提供晶状体质量的准确估计方面的有效性,在1.5或更好的因子内。此外,我们比较孔径质量的方法,从屈曲测量的收敛的直接非参数重建。我们证明,孔径质量技术是更好地能够约束的中心密度分布的形状,获得更精细的角分辨率重建,并不遭受模糊的信号的归一化,在对比的直接方法。

英文摘要:

In a recent publication, an aperture mass statistic for gravitational flexion was derived and shown to be effective, at least with simulated data, in detecting massive structures and substructures within clusters of galaxies. Further, it was suggested that the radius at which the flexion aperture mass signal falls to zero might allow for estimation of the mass or density profile of the structures detected. In this paper, we more fully explore this possibility, considering the behaviour both of the peak signal and the zero-signal contours for two mass models--the singular isothermal sphere and Navarro-Frenk-White profiles--under varying aperture size, filter shape and mass concentration parameter. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the flexion aperture mass statistic in discriminating between mass profiles and concentration parameters, and in providing an accurate estimate of the mass of the lens, to within a factor of 1.5 or better. In addition, we compare the aperture mass method to a direct nonparametric reconstruction of the convergence from flexion measurements. We demonstrate that the aperture mass technique is much better able to constrain the shape of the central density profile, obtains much finer angular resolution in reconstructions, and does not suffer from ambiguity in the normalisation of the signal, in contrast to the direct method.

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