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# The projected dark and baryonic ellipsoidal structure of 20 CLASH galaxy clusters.

Umetsu, Keiichi and Sereno, Mauro and Tam, Sut-Ieng and Chiu, I-Non and Fan, Zuhui and Ettori, Stefano and Gruen, Daniel and Okumura, Teppei and Medezinski, Elinor and Donahue, Megan and Meneghetti, Massimo and Frye, Brenda and Koekemoer, Anton and Broadhurst, Tom and Zitrin, Adi and Balestra, Italo and Benítez, Narciso and Higuchi, Yuichi and Melchior, Peter and Mercurio, Amata and Merten, Julian and Molino, Alberto and Nonino, Mario and Postman, Marc and Rosati, Piero and Sayers, Jack and Seitz, Stella (2018) 'The projected dark and baryonic ellipsoidal structure of 20 CLASH galaxy clusters.', Astrophysical journal., 860 (2). p. 104.

## Abstract

We reconstruct the two-dimensional (2D) matter distributions in 20 high-mass galaxy clusters selected from the CLASH survey by using the new approach of performing a joint weak gravitational lensing analysis of 2D shear and azimuthally averaged magnification measurements. This combination allows for a complete analysis of the field, effectively breaking the mass-sheet degeneracy. In a Bayesian framework, we simultaneously constrain the mass profile and morphology of each individual cluster, assuming an elliptical Navarro–Frenk–White halo characterized by the mass, concentration, projected axis ratio, and position angle (PA) of the projected major axis. We find that spherical mass estimates of the clusters from azimuthally averaged weak-lensing measurements in previous work are in excellent agreement with our results from a full 2D analysis. Combining all 20 clusters in our sample, we detect the elliptical shape of weak-lensing halos at the 5σ significance level within a scale of 2 $\mathrm{Mpc}\,{h}^{-1}$. The median projected axis ratio is 0.67 ± 0.07 at a virial mass of ${M}_{\mathrm{vir}}=(15.2\pm 2.8)\times {10}^{14}\,{M}_{\odot }$, which is in agreement with theoretical predictions from recent numerical simulations of the standard collisionless cold dark matter model. We also study misalignment statistics of the brightest cluster galaxy, X-ray, thermal Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, and strong-lensing morphologies with respect to the weak-lensing signal. Among the three baryonic tracers studied here, we find that the X-ray morphology is best aligned with the weak-lensing mass distribution, with a median misalignment angle of $| {\rm{\Delta }}\mathrm{PA}| =21^\circ \pm 7^\circ$. We also conduct a stacked quadrupole shear analysis of the 20 clusters assuming that the X-ray major axis is aligned with that of the projected mass distribution. This yields a consistent axis ratio of 0.67 ± 0.10, suggesting again a tight alignment between the intracluster gas and dark matter.

Item Type: Article (VoR) Version of Record Download PDF (3813Kb) Peer-reviewed https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac3d9 © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. 08 May 2018 12 July 2018 18 June 2018 12 July 2018

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