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Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society, 2(38), p. 191-195

DOI: 10.5303/jkas.2005.38.2.191

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The Mass Profile of Abell 1689 from a Lensing Analysis of Deep Wide Field Subaru Images

Journal article published in 2005 by Keiichi Umetsu ORCID, Tom Broadhurst, Masahiro Takada, Xu Kong
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We used Subaru observations of A1689 (z=0.183) to derive an accurate, model-independent mass profile for the entire cluster, r≲ 2 Mpc/h, by combining magnification bias and distortion measurements. The projected mass profile steepens quickly with increasing radius, falling away to zero at r˜ 1.0 Mpc/h, well short of the anticipated virial radius. Our profile accurately matches onto the inner profile, r≲ 200{kpc}/h, derived from deep HST/ACS images. The combined ACS and Subaru information is well fitted by an NFW profile with virial mass, (1.93± 0.20)× 1015M_&sun;, and surprisingly high concentration, cvir=13.7+1.4-1.1, significantly larger than theoretically expected (cvir~= 4), corresponding to a relatively steep overall profile. These results are based on a reliable sample of background galaxies selected to be redder than the cluster E/S0 sequence. By including the faint blue galaxy population a much smaller distortion signal is found, demonstrating that blue cluster members significantly dilute the true signal for r≲ 400{kpc}/h. This contamination is likely to affect most weak lensing results to date.