Measuring subhalo mass in redMaPPer clusters with CFHT Stripe 82 Survey

  • Ran Li
  • , Huanyuan Shan
  • , Jean Paul Kneib
  • , Houjun Mo
  • , Eduardo Rozo
  • , Alexie Leauthaud
  • , John Moustakas
  • , Lizhi Xie
  • , Thomas Erben
  • , Ludovic Van Waerbeke
  • , Martin Makler
  • , Eli Rykoff
  • , Bruno Moraes

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Abstract

We use the shear catalogue from the CFHT Stripe-82 Survey to measure the subhalo masses of satellite galaxies in redMaPPer clusters. Assuming a Chabrier initial mass function and a truncated NFW model for the subhalo mass distribution, we find that the subhalo mass to galaxy stellar mass ratio increases as a function of projected halo-centric radius rp, from Msub/Mstar = 4.43-2.23+6.63 at rp ∈ [0.1, 0.3] h-1 Mpc to Msub/Mstar= 75.40-19.09+19.73 at rp ∈ [0.6, 0.9] h-1 Mpc. We also investigate the dependence of subhalo masses on stellar mass by splitting satellite galaxies into two stellar mass bins: 10 < log (Mstar/h-1 M) < 10.5 and 11 < log (Mstar/h-1 M) < 12. The best-fitting subhalo mass of the more massive satellite galaxy bin is larger than that of the less massive satellites: log (Msub/h-1 M = 11.14-0.73+0.66 (Msub/Mstar = 19.5-17.9+19.8 versus log (Msub/h-1 M = 12.38-0.16+0.16 (Msub/Mstar = 21.1-7.7+7.4).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2573-2583
Number of pages11
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume458
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 8 2016

Keywords

  • Dark matter
  • Galaxies: Haloes
  • Galaxies: Statistics
  • Gravitational lensing: Weak
  • Methods: Data analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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