The Richness-to-Mass Relation of CAMIRA Galaxy Clusters from Weak-lensing Magnification in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Abstract

We present a statistical weak-lensing magnification analysis on an optically selected sample of 3029 CAMIRA galaxy clusters with richness N>15 at redshift 0.2≤ z <1.1 in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. We use two distinct populations of color-selected, flux-limited background galaxies, namely the low-z and high-z samples at mean redshifts of ≈1.1 and ≈1.4, respectively, from which to measure the weak-lensing magnification signal by accounting for cluster contamination as well as masking effects. Our magnification bias measurements are found to be uncontaminated according to validation tests against the "null-test" samples for which the net magnification bias is expected to vanish. The magnification bias for the full CAMIRA sample is detected at a significance level of 9.51σ, which is dominated by the high-z background. We forward-model the observed magnification data to constrain the normalization of the richness-to-mass (N--M) relation for the CAMIRA sample with informative priors on other parameters. The resulting scaling relation is N M5000.920.13 (1 + z)-0.480.69, with a characteristic richness of N=(17.722.60) and intrinsic log-normal scatter of 0.150.07 at M500 = 1014h-1M. With the derived N--M relation, we provide magnification-calibrated mass estimates of individual CAMIRA clusters, with the typical uncertainty of ≈39\% and ≈32\% at richness≈20 and ≈40, respectively. We further compare our magnification-inferred N--M relation with those from the shear-based results in the literature, finding good agreement.

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