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利用屈曲改进透镜簇质量估计

Improving lensing cluster mass estimate with flexion

Vincenzo F. Cardone, Martina Vicinanza, Xinzhong Er, Roberto Maoli, Roberto Scaramella

摘要:

引力透镜一直被认为是确定星系团总质量的有价值的工具。从背景星系的椭圆率统计推断的剪切剖面允许探测星系团的中间和外部区域,从而确定维里质量估计。然而,质量片退化和需要大量的背景星系激励寻找替代示踪剂,可以打破模型参数之间的退化,从而提高质量估计的准确性。透镜弯曲,即透镜势的三阶导数,已经被认为是对上述探索的一个很好的回答,因为它探测了质量分布的细节。我们在这里调查是否确实是这种情况下,考虑共同使用弱透镜,放大和屈曲。我们使用Fisher矩阵分析来预测在剪切和屈曲信号噪声(S/N)比上的不同假设的质量精度的相对改善,也改变了集群质量,红移和椭圆率。结果表明,对于屈曲S/N比的合理值,簇质量的误差可以减小到2倍。作为一般的结果,我们得到的质量精度的改善是更扁平的晕较大,但提取一般的趋势是一个困难的,因为许多参数在发挥作用。然而,我们发现,弯曲是一样有效的放大,以提高质量和浓度测定的准确性。

英文摘要:

Gravitational lensing has long been considered as a valuable tool to determine the total mass of galaxy clusters. The shear profile as inferred from the statistics of ellipticity of background galaxies allows to probe the cluster intermediate and outer regions thus determining the virial mass estimate. However, the mass sheet degeneracy and the need for a large number of background galaxies motivate the search for alternative tracers which can break the degeneracy among model parameters and hence improve the accuracy of the mass estimate. Lensing flexion, i.e. the third derivative of the lensing potential, has been suggested as a good answer to the above quest since it probes the details of the mass profile. We investigate here whether this is indeed the case considering jointly using weak lensing, magnification and flexion. We use a Fisher matrix analysis to forecast the relative improvement in the mass accuracy for different assumptions on the shear and flexion signal - to - noise (S/N) ratio also varying the cluster mass, redshift, and ellipticity. It turns out that the error on the cluster mass may be reduced up to a factor 2 for reasonable values of the flexion S/N ratio. As a general result, we get that the improvement in mass accuracy is larger for more flattened haloes, but extracting general trends is a difficult because of the many parameters at play. We nevertheless find that flexion is as efficient as magnification to increase the accuracy in both mass and concentration determination.

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