A halo mass-concentration relation from weak lensing
- Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States)
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
We perform a statistical weak lensing analysis of dark matter profiles around tracers of halo mass from galaxy-size to cluster-size halos. In this analysis we use 170 640 isolated {approx}L{sub *} galaxies split into ellipticals and spirals, 38 236 groups traced via isolated spectroscopic luminous red galaxies and 13 823 maxBCG clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey covering a wide range of richness. Together these three samples allow a determination of the density profiles of dark matter halos over three orders of magnitude in mass, from 10{sup 12}M{sub sun} to 10{sup 15}M{sub sun}. The resulting lensing signal is consistent with a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) or Einasto profile on scales outside the central region. In the inner regions, uncertainty in modeling of the proper identification of the halo center and inclusion of baryonic effects from the central galaxy make the comparison less reliable. We find that the NFW concentration parameter c{sub 200b} decreases with halo mass, from around 10 for galactic halos to 4 for cluster halos. Assuming its dependence on halo mass in the form of c{sub 200b}=c{sub 0} (M/10{sup 14}h{sup -1} M{sub sun}){sup -{beta}} we find c{sub 0} = 4.6 {+-} 0.7 (at z = 0.22) and {beta} = 0.13 {+-} 0.07, with very similar results for the Einasto profile. The slope ({beta}) is in agreement with theoretical predictions, while the amplitude is about two standard deviations below the predictions for this mass and redshift, but we note that the published values in the literature differ at a level of 10-20% and that for a proper comparison our analysis should be repeated in simulations. We compare our results to other recent determinations, some of which find significantly higher concentrations. We discuss the implications of our results for the baryonic effects on the shear power spectrum: since these are expected to increase the halo concentration, the fact that we see no evidence of high concentrations on scales above 20% of the virial radius suggests that baryonic effects are limited to small scales, and are not a significant source of uncertainty for the current weak lensing measurements of the dark matter power spectrum.
- OSTI ID:
- 22156699
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 08; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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