D. Clowe
On dark peaks and missing mass : a weak-lensing mass reconstruction of the merging cluster system A520
Clowe, D.; Markevitch, M.; Bradac, M.; Gonzalez, A.H.; Chung, S.M.; Massey, R.; Zaritsky, D.
Authors
M. Markevitch
M. Bradac
A.H. Gonzalez
S.M. Chung
Professor Richard Massey r.j.massey@durham.ac.uk
Professor
D. Zaritsky
Abstract
Merging clusters of galaxies are unique in their power to directly probe and place limits on the self-interaction cross-section of dark matter. Detailed observations of several merging clusters have shown the intracluster gas to be displaced from the centroids of dark matter and galaxy density by ram pressure, while the latter components are spatially coincident, consistent with collisionless dark matter. This has been used to place upper limits on the dark matter particle self-interaction cross-section of order 1 cm2 g–1. The cluster A520 has been seen as a possible exception. We revisit A520 presenting new Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys mosaic images and a Magellan image set. We perform a detailed weak-lensing analysis and show that the weak-lensing mass measurements and morphologies of the core galaxy-filled structures are mostly in good agreement with previous works. There is, however, one significant difference: We do not detect the previously claimed "dark core" that contains excess mass with no significant galaxy overdensity at the location of the X-ray plasma. This peak has been suggested to be indicative of a large self-interaction cross-section for dark matter (at least ~5σ larger than the upper limit of 0.7 cm2 g–1 determined by observations of the Bullet Cluster). We find no such indication and instead find that the mass distribution of A520, after subtraction of the X-ray plasma mass, is in good agreement with the luminosity distribution of the cluster galaxies. We conclude that A520 shows no evidence to contradict the collisionless dark matter scenario.
Citation
Clowe, D., Markevitch, M., Bradac, M., Gonzalez, A., Chung, S., Massey, R., & Zaritsky, D. (2012). On dark peaks and missing mass : a weak-lensing mass reconstruction of the merging cluster system A520. Astrophysical Journal, 758(2), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/758/2/128
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Oct 20, 2012 |
Deposit Date | Mar 21, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 11, 2015 |
Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
Print ISSN | 0004-637X |
Electronic ISSN | 1538-4357 |
Publisher | American Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 758 |
Issue | 2 |
Article Number | 128 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/758/2/128 |
Keywords | Dark matter, Galaxies: clusters: individual (A520), Gravitational lensing: weak. |
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