MC2: Subaru and Hubble Space Telescope Weak-lensing Analysis of the Double Radio Relic Galaxy Cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9

Finner, Kyle; Jee, M. James; Golovich, Nathan; Wittman, David; Dawson, William; Grün, Daniel; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Lemaux, Brian C. und Seitz, Stella (2017): MC2: Subaru and Hubble Space Telescope Weak-lensing Analysis of the Double Radio Relic Galaxy Cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9. In: Astrophysical Journal, Bd. 851, Nr. 1, 46

Abstract

The second most significant detection of the Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich survey, PLCK G287.0+32.9 (z = 0.385), boasts two similarly bright radio relics and a radio halo. One radio relic is located similar to 400 kpc NW of the X-ray peak and the other similar to 2.8 Mpc to the SE. This large difference suggests that a complex merging scenario is required. A key missing puzzle for the merging scenario reconstruction is the underlying dark matter distribution in high resolution. We present a joint Subaru Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope weak-lensing analysis of the cluster. Our analysis shows that the mass distribution features four significant substructures. Of the substructures, a primary cluster of mass M-200c = 1.59(-0.22)(+0.25) x 10(15) h(70)(-1) M-circle dot dominates the weak-lensing signal. This cluster is likely to be undergoing a merger with one (or more) subcluster whose mass is approximately a factor of 10 lower. One candidate is the subcluster of mass M-200c = 1.16(-0.13)(+0.15) x 10(14) h(70)(-1) M-circle dot located similar to 400 kpc to the SE. The location of this subcluster suggests that its interaction with the primary cluster could be the source of the NW radio relic. Another subcluster is detected similar to 2 Mpc to the SE of the X-ray peak with mass M-200c =1.68(-0.20)(+0.22) x 10(14) h(70)(-1) M-circle dot. This SE subcluster is in the vicinity of the SE radio relic and may have created the SE radio relic during a past merger with the primary cluster. The fourth subcluster, M-200c = 1.87(-0.22)(+0.24) x 10(14) h(70)(-1) M-circle dot, is NW of the X-ray peak and beyond the NW radio relic.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 0004-637X
• Sprache: Englisch