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Cluster mass profiles from weak lensing: The influence of substructure

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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 378, 期 3, 页码 748-755

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011178

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dark matter; gravitational lensing; large-scale structure of Universe; galaxies : clusters : general; methods : statistical

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The tidal gravitational field of a cluster distorts the shapes of background galaxies. This signature can be used to place constraints on the mass profile of the cluster, using a maximum likelihood analysis to find the best-fit parameterised model. In Schneider et al. (2000) and King & Schneider (2001) we investigated how accurately parameters can be obtained, concentrating on smooth profiles. Here, we consider a realistic model for substructure in a cluster (from N-body simulations), in order to see what influence this has on the recovery of parameters. We find that for a typical cluster at z(d) = 0.2, the presence of substructure increases the error on parameters recovered from weak lensing data by approximate to3%. Even doubling the substructure amplitude induces only a approximate to 10% increase in the parameter dispersion: this bodes well for our method.

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