Weak Gravitational Lensing by a Sample of X‐Ray Luminous Clusters of Galaxies. I. The Data Set (original) (raw)

2002, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Weak Lensing Observations of High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies

We present results of a weak gravitational lensing survey of six X-ray selected high-redshift clusters of galaxies. We find that the masses of the clusters derived from weak lensing are comparable to those derived from the X-ray observations. We show that many of the clusters have significant substructure not observed in the X-ray observations and that for the more massive clusters a singular isothermal sphere does not provide a good fit to the radial mass profile.

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