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Title: SHELS: TESTING WEAK-LENSING MAPS WITH REDSHIFT SURVEYS

Journal Article · · Astrophysical Journal
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  1. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics, Brown University, Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912 (United States)
  3. INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via C. B. Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste (Italy)

Weak-lensing surveys are emerging as an important tool for the construction of 'mass-selected' clusters of galaxies. We evaluate both the efficiency and completeness of a weak-lensing selection by combining a dense, complete redshift survey, the Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey (SHELS), with a weak-lensing map from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS). SHELS includes 11,692 redshifts for galaxies with R <= 20.6 in the 4 deg{sup 2} DLS field; the survey is a solid basis for identifying massive clusters of galaxies with redshift z approx< 0.55. The range of sensitivity of the redshift survey is similar to the range for the DLS convergence map. Only four of the 12 convergence peaks with signal to noise >=3.5 correspond to clusters of galaxies with M approx> 1.7 x 10{sup 14} M{sub sun}. Four of the eight massive clusters in SHELS are detected in the weak-lensing map yielding a completeness of approx50%. We examine the seven known extended cluster X-ray sources in the DLS field: three can be detected in the weak-lensing map, three should not be detected without boosting from superposed large-scale structure, and one is mysteriously undetected even though its optical properties suggest that it should produce a detectable lensing signal. Taken together, these results underscore the need for more extensive comparisons among different methods of massive cluster identification.

OSTI ID:
21392307
Journal Information:
Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 709, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/709/2/832; ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English