Properties of Weak Lensing Clusters Detected on Hyper Suprime-Cam 2.3 Square Degree Field

TL;DR

This study analyzes weak lensing detected galaxy clusters in a 2.3 square degree field, comparing optical and lensing data, and discusses implications for cosmology and baryon content.

Contribution

First weak lensing cluster analysis using Hyper Suprime-Cam data, combining optical and lensing observations to estimate cluster masses and compare with cosmological models.

Findings

Eight significant lensing peaks with optical counterparts identified.

Cluster mass estimates range from 2.7x10^13 to 4.4x10^14 solar masses.

Number of peaks suggests a high sigma8 consistent with Planck results.

Abstract

We present properties of moderately massive clusters of galaxies detected by the newly developed Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope using weak gravitational lensing. Eight peaks exceeding a S/N ratio of 4.5 are identified on the convergence S/N map of a 2.3 square degree field observed during the early commissioning phase of the camera. Multi-color photometric data is used to generate optically selected clusters using the CAMIRA algorithm. The optical cluster positions were correlated with the peak positions from the convergence map. All eight significant peaks have optical counterparts. The velocity dispersion of clusters are evaluated by adopting the Singular Isothemal Sphere (SIS) fit to the tangential shear profiles, yielding virial mass estimates, M500c, of the clusters which range from 2.7x10^13 to 4.4x10^14 solar mass. The number of peaks is considerably larger than the average number expected from LambdaCDM cosmology but this is not extremely unlikely if one takes the large sample variance in the small field into account. We could, however, safely argue that the peak count strongly favours the recent Planck result suggesting high sigma8$value of 0.83. The ratio of stellar mass to the dark matter halo mass shows a clear decline as the halo mass increases. If the gas mass fraction, fg, in halos is universal, as has been suggested in the literature, the observed baryon mass in stars and gas shows a possible deficit compared with the total baryon density estimated from the baryon oscillation peaks in anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background.