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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 444, 期 3, 页码 2333-2345出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu1614
关键词
gravitational lensing: strong; methods: numerical; galaxies: clusters: general-dark matter
资金
- SSimPL programme
- Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA) [DP130100117, DP140100198]
- University of Sydney's International Scholarship programme
- [FT130100041]
- Australian Research Council [FT130100041] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
We study clusters in warm dark matter (WDM) models of a thermally produced dark matter particle 0.5 keV in mass. We show that, despite clusters in WDM cosmologies having similar density profiles as their cold dark matter (CDM) counterparts, the internal properties, such as the amount of substructure, show marked differences. This result is surprising as clusters are at mass scales that are a thousand times greater than that at which structure formation is suppressed. WDM clusters gain significantly more mass via smooth accretion and contain fewer substructures than their CDM brethren. The higher smooth mass accretion results in subhaloes which are physically more extended and less dense. These fine-scale differences can be probed by strong gravitational lensing. We find, unexpectedly, that WDM clusters have higher lensing efficiencies than those in CDM cosmologies, contrary to the naive expectation that WDM clusters should be less efficient due to the fewer substructures they contain. Despite being less dense, the larger WDM subhaloes are more likely to have larger lensing cross-sections than CDM ones. Additionally, WDM subhaloes typically reside at larger distances, which radially stretches the critical lines associated with strong gravitational lensing, resulting in excess in the number of clusters with large radial cross-sections at the similar to 2 sigma level. Though lensing profile for an individual cluster vary significantly with the line of sight, the radial arc distribution based on a sample of greater than or similar to 100 clusters may prove to be the crucial test for the presence of WDM.
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