The Sloan Nearby Cluster Weak Lensing Survey

Abstract

We describe and present initial results of a weak lensing survey of nearby ($\mathrm{z}\lesssim 0.1$) galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this first study, galaxy clusters are selected from the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy cluster catalogs of \citet{miller05} and \citet{berlind06}. We report a total of seven individual low redshift cluster weak lensing measurements which include: A2048, A1767, A2244, A1066, A2199, and two clusters specifically identified with the C4 algorithm. Our program of weak lensing of nearby galaxy clusters in the SDSS will eventually reach $\sim 200$ clusters, making it the largest weak lensing survey of individual galaxy clusters to date.

accepted to ApJL; 11 pages, 1 figure

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