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Mass Modeling of Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 Using Strong and Weak Lensing

Emily Quinn Finney, Maruša Bradač, Kuang-Han Huang, Austin Hoag, Takahiro Morishita, Tim Schrabback, Tommaso Treu, Kasper Borello Schmidt, Brian C. Lemaux, Xin Wang, Charlotte Mason

Published 2018-06-02Version 1

We present a gravitational lensing model of MACS J1149.5+2223 using ultra-deep Hubble Frontier Fields imaging data and spectroscopic redshifts from HST grism and VLT/MUSE spectroscopic data. We create total mass maps using 38 multiple images (13 sources) and 608 weak lensing galaxies, as well as 100 multiple images of 31 star-forming regions in the galaxy that hosts Supernova Refsdal. We find good agreement with a range of recent models within the HST field of view. We present a map of the ratio of projected stellar mass to total mass ($f_{\star}$), and find that the stellar mass fraction for this cluster peaks on the primary BCG. Averaging within a radius of 0.3 Mpc, we obtain a value of $\langle f_{\star} \rangle = 0.012^{+0.004}_{-0.003}$, consistent with other recent results for this ratio in cluster environments, though with a large global error (up to $\delta f_{\star} = 0.005$) primarily due to the choice of an IMF. We compare values of $f_{\star}$ and measures of star formation efficiency for this cluster to other Hubble Frontier Fields clusters studied in the literature, finding that MACS1149 has a higher stellar mass fraction than these other clusters, but a star formation efficiency typical of massive clusters.

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ May 23, 2018
Journal: The Astrophysical Journal, 859, 1, 2018
Categories: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO
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