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透镜效应对星系团质量剖面形状和回溅半径的限制

Lensing Constraints on the Mass Profile Shape and the Splashback Radius of Galaxy Clusters

Keiichi Umetsu, Benedikt Diemer

摘要:

原则上,星系团周围的透镜信号可以用来测试数值模拟对它们平均质量分布的详细预测。然而,当一个样品跨越了很大范围的集群质量是平均的物理长度单位时,轮廓的固有形状可能会模糊。这种效应尤其掩盖了梯度的快速变化,例如与回溅半径相关的陡降,即与吸积晕中最外层焦散相对应的尖锐边缘。我们通过将单个晕轮廓缩放到一些球形过密度半径来优化这种局部特征的提取,并将这种方法应用于16个X射线选择的高质量星团,这些星团是哈勃望远镜在星团透镜和超新星调查中的目标。通过对Umetsu等人提出的弱透镜和强透镜数据进行前向建模,我们表明,不管标度过密度如何,投影的系综密度轮廓都可以很好地由NFW或Einasto轮廓描述,直到$R \sim 2.5h^{-1}$ Mpc,超过该轮廓,轮廓变平。我们将NFW浓度限制为在$M_{200c} \simeq 1.0 \times 10^{15}h^{-1}M_\odot$的$c_{200c} = 3.66 \pm 0.11$,与使用常规堆叠透镜轮廓的先前工作一致并从其改进,并且与理论预期非常一致。假设Diemer和Kravtsov的剖面形式和从数值模拟校准的通用先验,我们放置在集群晕的回溅半径的下限,如果它存在的话,$R_{sp}/r_{200m} > 0.89$($R_{sp} > 1.83h^{-1}$ Mpc)在68%的置信度。相应的密度特征是最明显的集群配置文件时,按比例缩放的$r_{200m}$,并涂抹时,按比例缩放到更高的过密度。

英文摘要:

The lensing signal around galaxy clusters can, in principle, be used to test detailed predictions for their average mass profile from numerical simulations. However, the intrinsic shape of the profiles can be smeared out when a sample that spans a wide range of cluster masses is averaged in physical length units. This effect especially conceals rapid changes in gradient such as the steep drop associated with the splashback radius, a sharp edge corresponding to the outermost caustic in accreting halos. We optimize the extraction of such local features by scaling individual halo profiles to a number of spherical overdensity radii, and apply this method to 16 X-ray-selected high-mass clusters targeted in the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble. By forward-modeling the weak- and strong-lensing data presented by Umetsu et al., we show that, regardless of the scaling overdensity, the projected ensemble density profile is remarkably well described by an NFW or Einasto profile out to $R \sim 2.5h^{-1}$Mpc, beyond which the profiles flatten. We constrain the NFW concentration to $c_{200c} = 3.66 \pm 0.11$ at $M_{200c} \simeq 1.0 \times 10^{15}h^{-1}M_\odot$, consistent with and improved from previous work that used conventionally stacked lensing profiles, and in excellent agreement with theoretical expectations. Assuming the profile form of Diemer & Kravtsov and generic priors calibrated from numerical simulations, we place a lower limit on the splashback radius of the cluster halos, if it exists, of $R_{sp}/r_{200m} > 0.89$ ($R_{sp} > 1.83h^{-1}$Mpc) at 68% confidence. The corresponding density feature is most pronounced when the cluster profiles are scaled by $r_{200m}$, and smeared out when scaled to higher overdensities.

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