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Mass-detection of a matter concentration projected near the cluster Abell 1942: Dark clump or high-redshift cluster?

Erben, T ; van Waerbeke, L ; Mellier, Y ; Schneider, P ; Cuillandre, J. -C ; Castander, F. J ; Dantel-Fort, M

Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2000, Vol.355, p.23-36 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Mass-detection of a matter concentration projected near the cluster Abell 1942: Dark clump or high-redshift cluster?
  • Autor: Erben, T ; van Waerbeke, L ; Mellier, Y ; Schneider, P ; Cuillandre, J. -C ; Castander, F. J ; Dantel-Fort, M
  • Assuntos: Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ; Physics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics ; Physics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ; Physics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ; Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ; Physics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ; Sciences of the Universe
  • É parte de: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2000, Vol.355, p.23-36
  • Descrição: A weak-lensing analysis of wide-field $V$- and $I$-band images centered on the cluster Abell 1942 has uncovered a mass concentration $\sim 7$ arcminutes South of the cluster center. A statistical analysis shows that the detections are highly significant. No strong concentration of bright galaxies is seen at the position of the mass concentration, though a slight galaxy number overdensity and a weak extended X-ray source are present about 1' away from its center. From the spatial dependence of the tangential alignment around the center of the mass concentration, we inferred a lower bound on the mass inside a sphere of radius $0.5 h^{-1}$\ts Mpc of $1\times 10^{14}h^{-1}M_\odot$, much higher than crude mass estimates based on X-ray data. No firm conclusion can be inferred about the nature of the clump. If it were a high-redshift cluster, the weak X-ray flux would indicate that it had an untypically low X-ray luminosity for its mass; if the X-ray emission were physically unrelated to the mass concentration, this conclusion would be even stronger. The search for massive halos by weak lensing enables us for the first time to select halos based on their mass properties only and to detect new types of objects, e.g., dark halos. The mass concentration in the field of A1942 may be the first example of such a halo.
  • Editor: EDP Sciences
  • Idioma: Inglês
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