First measurement of gravitational lensing by cosmic voids in SDSS

Peter Melchior; P. M. Sutter; Erin S. Sheldon; Elisabeth Krause; Benjamin D. Wandelt

doi:10.1093/mnras/stu456

First measurement of gravitational lensing by cosmic voids in SDSS

Peter Melchior, P. M. Sutter, Erin S. Sheldon, Elisabeth Krause, Benjamin D. Wandelt

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We report the first measurement of the diminutive lensing signal arising from matter underdensities associated with cosmic voids. While undetectable individually, by stacking the weak gravitational shear estimates around 901 voids detected in Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 by Sutter et al., we find substantial evidence for a depression of the lensing signal compared to the cosmic mean. This depression is most pronounced at the void radius, in agreement with analytical models of void matter profiles. Even with the largest void sample and imaging survey available today, we cannot put useful constraints on the radial dark matter void profile. We invite independent investigations of our findings by releasing data and analysis code to the public at. https://github.com/pmelchior/void-lensing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2922-2927
Number of pages	6
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	440
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu456
State	Published - Jun 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Cosmology: observations
Gravitational lensing: weak

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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First measurement of gravitational lensing by cosmic voids in SDSS

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