The Sloan Nearby Cluster Weak Lensing Survey

We describe and present initial results of a weak lensing survey of nearby (\(\rm{z}\lesssim0.1\)) galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this first study, galaxy clusters are selected from the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy cluster catalogs of \citet{miller05} and \citet{berlind06}....

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Published in:arXiv.org 2009-08
Main Authors: Kubo, Jeffrey M, Annis, James, Hardin, Frances Mei, Kubik, Donna, Lawhorn, Kelsey, Lin, Huan, Nicklaus, Liana, Nelson, Dylan, Reis, Ribamar R R, Hee-Jong Seo, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Stebbins, Albert, Yunker, Tony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Galactic clusters
Galaxies
Red shift
Sky surveys (astronomy)
Star & galaxy formation
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Summary:We describe and present initial results of a weak lensing survey of nearby (\(\rm{z}\lesssim0.1\)) galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this first study, galaxy clusters are selected from the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy cluster catalogs of \citet{miller05} and \citet{berlind06}. We report a total of seven individual low redshift cluster weak lensing measurements which include: A2048, A1767, A2244, A1066, A2199, and two clusters specifically identified with the C4 algorithm. Our program of weak lensing of nearby galaxy clusters in the SDSS will eventually reach \(\sim 200\) clusters, making it the largest weak lensing survey of individual galaxy clusters to date.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0908.1532