# X-ray Temperatures, Luminosities, and Masses From XMM-Newton Follow-up   of the First Shear-selected Galaxy Cluster Sample

**Authors:** Amruta J. Deshpande (1), John P. Hughes (1), David Wittman (2 and, 3) ((1) Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, (2) University of, California, Davis, (3) Universidade de Lisboa)

arXiv: 1703.04023 · 2017-05-03

## TL;DR

This study characterizes the X-ray properties of shear-selected galaxy clusters from the Deep Lens Survey, comparing X-ray and weak lensing masses, and analyzing their luminosity-temperature relation.

## Contribution

It provides the first detailed X-ray analysis of shear-selected clusters, comparing X-ray and weak lensing masses and examining the luminosity-temperature relation.

## Key findings

- X-ray clusters show a wide range of luminosities and temperatures.
- The Lx-Tx relation aligns with non-dynamically selected samples.
- X-ray and weak lensing masses are consistent within scatter.

## Abstract

We continue the study of the first sample of shear-selected clusters (Wittman et al. 2006) from the initial 8.6 square degrees of the Deep Lens Survey (DLS, Wittman et al. 2002); a sample with well-defined selection criteria corresponding to the highest ranked shear peaks in the survey area. We aim to characterize the weak lensing selection by examining the sample's X-ray properties. There are multiple X-ray clusters associated with nearly all the shear peaks: 14 X-ray clusters corresponding to seven DLS shear peaks. An additional three X-ray clusters cannot be definitively associated with shear peaks, mainly due to large positional offsets between the X-ray centroid and the shear peak. Here we report on the X-ray properties of the 17 X-ray clusters. The X-ray clusters display a wide range of luminosities and temperatures; the Lx-Tx relation we determine for the shear-associated X-ray clusters is consistent with X-ray cluster samples selected without regard to dynamical state, while it is inconsistent with self-similarity. For a subset of the sample, we measure X-ray masses using temperature as a proxy, and compare to weak lensing masses determined by the DLS team (Abate et al. 2009; Wittman et al. 2014). The resulting mass comparison is consistent with equality. The X-ray and weak lensing masses show considerable intrinsic scatter (~48%), which is consistent with X-ray selected samples when their X-ray and weak lensing masses are independently determined.

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