Weak Lensing Mass Measurements of Substructures in COMA Cluster with Subaru/Suprime-Cam

TL;DR

This study uses weak lensing analysis with Subaru/Suprime-Cam to measure the mass of substructures in the Coma cluster, correcting for background structures and modeling the subclumps with truncated profiles.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed weak lensing mass measurements of substructures in the Coma cluster, including LSS correction and modeling of subclump profiles.

Findings

Average subclump mass after correction: (5.06±1.30)×10^12 h^-1 M_sun

Typical subclump truncation radius: ~35 h^-1 kpc

Substructures account for about 19% of the cluster's virial mass

Abstract

We obtain the projected mass distributions for two Subaru/Suprime-Cam fields in the southwest region (r\simlt 60') of the Coma cluster (z=0.0236) by weak lensing analysis and detect eight subclump candidates. We quantify the contribution of background large-scale structure (LSS) on the projected mass distributions using SDSS multi-bands and photometric data, under the assumption of mass-to-light ratio for field galaxies. We find that one of eight subclump candidates, which is not associated with any member galaxies, is significantly affected by LSS lensing. The mean projected mass for seven subclumps extracted from the main cluster potential is <M_2D^(corr)> = (5.06\pm1.30)10^12h^-1 M_sun after a LSS correction. A tangential distortion profile over an ensemble of subclumps is well described by a truncated singular-isothermal sphere model and a truncated NFW model. A typical truncated radius of subclumps, r_t\simeq 35 h^-1 kpc, is derived without assuming any relations between mass and light for member galaxies. The radius coincides well with the tidal radius, \sim42 h^-1 kpc, of the gravitational force of the main cluster. Taking into account the incompleteness of data area, a projection effect and spurious lensing peaks, it is expected that mass of cluster substructures account for 19 percent of the virial mass, with 13 percent statistical error. The mass fraction of cluster substructures is in rough agreement with numerical simulations.