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An atlas of MUSE observations towards twelve massive lensing clusters

Richard, Johan; Claeyssens, Adélaïde; Lagattuta, David; Guaita, Lucia; Bauer, Franz Erik; Pello, Roser; Carton, David; Bacon, Roland; Soucail, Geneviève; Lyon, Gonzalo Prieto; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Mahler, Guillaume; Clément, Benjamin; Mercier, Wilfried; Variu, Andrei; Tamone, Amélie; Ebeling, Harald; Schmidt, Kasper B.; Nanayakkara, Themiya; Maseda, Michael; Weilbacher, Peter M.; Bouché, Nicolas; Bouwens, Rychard J.; Wisotzki, Lutz; de la Vieuville, Geoffroy; Martinez, Johany; Patrício, Vera

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Authors

Johan Richard

Adélaïde Claeyssens

Lucia Guaita

Franz Erik Bauer

Roser Pello

David Carton

Roland Bacon

Geneviève Soucail

Gonzalo Prieto Lyon

Jean-Paul Kneib

Guillaume Mahler

Benjamin Clément

Wilfried Mercier

Andrei Variu

Amélie Tamone

Harald Ebeling

Kasper B. Schmidt

Themiya Nanayakkara

Michael Maseda

Peter M. Weilbacher

Nicolas Bouché

Rychard J. Bouwens

Lutz Wisotzki

Geoffroy de la Vieuville

Johany Martinez

Vera Patrício



Abstract

Context. Spectroscopic surveys of massive galaxy clusters reveal the properties of faint background galaxies thanks to the magnification provided by strong gravitational lensing. Aims. We present a systematic analysis of integral-field-spectroscopy observations of 12 massive clusters, conducted with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). All data were taken under very good seeing conditions (∼0″​​.6) in effective exposure times between two and 15 h per pointing, for a total of 125 h. Our observations cover a total solid angle of ∼23 arcmin2 in the direction of clusters, many of which were previously studied by the MAssive Clusters Survey, Frontier Fields (FFs), Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space and Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble programmes. The achieved emission line detection limit at 5σ for a point source varies between (0.77–1.5) × 10−18 erg s−1 cm−2 at 7000 Å. Methods. We present our developed strategy to reduce these observational data, detect continuum sources and line emitters in the datacubes, and determine their redshifts. We constructed robust mass models for each cluster to further confirm our redshift measurements using strong-lensing constraints, and identified a total of 312 strongly lensed sources producing 939 multiple images. Results. The final redshift catalogues contain more than 3300 robust redshifts, of which 40% are for cluster members and ∼30% are for lensed Lyman-α emitters. Fourteen percent of all sources are line emitters that are not seen in the available HST images, even at the depth of the FFs (∼29 AB). We find that the magnification distribution of the lensed sources in the high-magnification regime (μ = 2–25) follows the theoretical expectation of N(z) ∝ μ−2. The quality of this dataset, number of lensed sources, and number of strong-lensing constraints enables detailed studies of the physical properties of both the lensing cluster and the background galaxies. The full data products from this work, including the datacubes, catalogues, extracted spectra, ancillary images, and mass models, are made available to the community.

Citation

Richard, J., Claeyssens, A., Lagattuta, D., Guaita, L., Bauer, F. E., Pello, R., …Patrício, V. (2021). An atlas of MUSE observations towards twelve massive lensing clusters. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 646, Article A83. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039462

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 8, 2020
Online Publication Date Feb 12, 2021
Publication Date 2021-02
Deposit Date Jun 22, 2021
Publicly Available Date Jun 23, 2021
Journal Astronomy and astrophysics.
Print ISSN 0004-6361
Electronic ISSN 1432-0746
Publisher EDP Sciences
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 646
Article Number A83
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039462

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