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arxiv: 1601.02023 · v1 · pith:HKTSHH7Xnew · submitted 2016-01-08 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

Cluster mass profile reconstruction with size and flux magnification on the HST STAGES survey

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We present the first measurement of individual cluster mass estimates using weak lensing size and flux magnification. Using data from the HST-STAGES survey of the A901/902 supercluster we detect the four known groups in the supercluster at high significance using magnification alone. We discuss the application of a fully Bayesian inference analysis, and investigate a broad range of potential systematics in the application of the method. We compare our results to a previous weak lensing shear analysis of the same field finding the recovered signal-to-noise of our magnification-only analysis to range from 45% to 110% of the signal-to-noise in the shear-only analysis. On a case-by-case basis we find consistent magnification and shear constraints on cluster virial radius, and finding that for the full sample, magnification constraints to be a factor $0.77 \pm 0.18$ lower than the shear measurements.

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