LoVoCCS. II. Weak Lensing Mass Distributions, Red-sequence Galaxy Distributions, and Their Alignment with the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in 58 Nearby X-Ray-luminous Galaxy Clusters

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 974; no. 1; pp. 69 - 99
• Main Authors: Fu, Shenming, Dell’Antonio, Ian, Escalante, Zacharias, Nelson, Jessica, Englert, Anthony, Helhoski, Søren, Shinde, Rahul, Brockland, Julia, LaDuca, Philip, Larkin, Christelyn, Paris, Lucca, Weiner, Shane, Black, William K., Chary, Ranga-Ram, Clowe, Douglas, Cooper, M. C., Donahue, Megan, Evrard, August, Lacy, Mark, Lauer, Tod, Liu, Binyang, McCleary, Jacqueline, Meneghetti, Massimo, Miyatake, Hironao, Montes, Mireia, Natarajan, Priyamvada, Ntampaka, Michelle, Pierpaoli, Elena, Postman, Marc, Sohn, Jubee, Turner, David, Umetsu, Keiichi, Utsumi, Yousuke, Wilson, Gillian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia The American Astronomical Society 01.10.2024; IOP Publishing; American Astronomical Society
• Subjects: Alignment; Apertures; Astronomy data analysis; Cluster analysis; Dark energy; Dark matter; Galactic clusters; Galactic structure; Galaxies; Galaxy clusters; Galaxy distribution; Gravitational lenses; Mass distribution; Misalignment; Observational cosmology; Point sources; Red shift; Surveys; Two dimensional analysis; Weak gravitational lensing; X-ray astronomy; X-rays

The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey is an ongoing program to observe nearly a hundred low-redshift X-ray-luminous galaxy clusters (redshifts 0.03 < z < 0.12 and X-ray luminosities in the 0.1–2.4 keV band L X500c > 10 44 erg s −1 ) with the Dark Energy Camera, capturing data in the u ,...