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Title: Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project - II. Quantifying scatter and bias using contrasting mock catalogues

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv421· OSTI ID:1336372
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  1. Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  3. National Centre for Scientific Research-Mixed Organizations (CNRS-UMR), Paris (France). Inst. of Astrophysics
  4. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
  5. Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Hawthorn (Australia). Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
  6. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (United States)
  7. National Inst. for Space Research, S.J. Campos (Brazil)
  8. Univ. of Antioquia (Columbia)
  9. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Astronomy
  10. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  11. Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  12. Leibniz Inst. for Astrophysics Potsdam (Germany)
  13. Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy
  14. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
  15. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  16. Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany). Dept. of Physics
  17. Tartu Observatory, Toravere (Estonia)
  18. Leiden Univ. (Netherlands). Leiden Observatory
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Our paper is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilize the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our aim is to quantify the scatter, systematic bias and completeness of cluster masses derived from a diverse set of 25 galaxy-based methods using two contrasting mock galaxy catalogues based on a sophisticated halo occupation model and a semi-analytic model. Analysing 968 clusters, we find a wide range in the rms errors in log M200c delivered by the different methods (0.18–1.08 dex, i.e. a factor of ~1.5–12), with abundance-matching and richness methods providing the best results, irrespective of the input model assumptions. In addition, certain methods produce a significant number of catastrophic cases where the mass is under- or overestimated by a factor greater than 10. Given the steeply falling high-mass end of the cluster mass function, we recommend that richness- or abundance-matching-based methods are used in conjunction with these methods as a sanity check for studies selecting high-mass clusters. We also see a stronger correlation of the recovered to input number of galaxies for both catalogues in comparison with the group/cluster mass, however, this does not guarantee that the correct member galaxies are being selected. Finally, we did not observe significantly higher scatter for either mock galaxy catalogues. These results have implications for cosmological analyses that utilize the masses, richnesses, or abundances of clusters, which have different uncertainties when different methods are used.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1336372
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16766; arXiv:1502.07347
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 449, Issue 2; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 58 works
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