Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-21-2022

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

We utilize the galaxy shape catalogue from the first-year data release of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey to study the dark matter content of galaxy groups in the Universe using weak lensing. We use galaxy groups from the Galaxy Mass and Assembly galaxy survey in approximately 100 sq. degrees of the sky that overlap with the HSC survey as lenses. We restrict our analysis to the 1587 groups with at least five members. We divide these groups into six bins each of group luminosity and group member velocity dispersion and measure the lensing signal with a signal-to-noise ratio of 55 and 51 for these two different selections, respectively. We use a Bayesian halo model framework to infer the halo mass distribution of our groups binned in the two different observable properties and constrain the power-law scaling relation and the scatter between mean halo masses and the two-group observable properties. We obtain a 5 per cent constraint on the amplitude of the scaling relation between halo mass and group luminosity with 〈M〉 = (0.81 ± 0.04) × 1014 h−1 M for Lgrp = 1011.5 h−2 L, and a power-law index of α = 1.01 ± 0.07. We constrain the amplitude of the scaling relation between halo mass and velocity dispersion to be 〈M〉 = (0.93 ± 0.05) × 1014 h−1 M for σ=500kms−1" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">σ=500kms−1σ=500kms−1 and a power-law index to be α = 1.52 ± 0.10. However, these scaling relations are sensitive to the exact cuts applied to the number of group members. Comparisons with similar scaling relations from the literature show that our results are consistent and have significantly reduced errors.

Comments

© 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Original Publication Information

Divya Rana, Surhud More, Hironao Miyatake, Takahiro Nishimichi, Masahiro Takada, Aaron S G Robotham, Andrew M Hopkins, Benne W Holwerda, The Subaru HSC weak lensing mass-observable scaling relations of spectroscopic galaxy groups from the GAMA survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 510, Issue 4, March 2022, Pages 5408–5425.

DOI

10.1093/mnras/stac007

ORCID

0000-0002-4884-6756

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