Detection of a filament connected to CL0016 with weak gravitational lensing

Abstract

We report on the weak lensing detection of a filament between two galaxy clusters at $z=0.55$, CL0015.9+1609 and RX J0018.3+1618. We conduct weak lensing analysis of deep multi-band Subaru/Suprime-Cam images with $Lensfit$. The weak lensing signals from the filament are contaminated by signals from the adjacent massive clusters and we statistically subtract the cluster component using two different methods. Both methods yield consistent shear profiles on the filament with $\gtrsim 2\sigma$ significance and the average surface mass density of the filament is $<\Sigma >=(3.20\pm 0.10)\times 10^{14}h$ M${}_{\odot }$Mpc${}^{-2}$, which is in broad agreement with previous studies. On-going surveys such as Hyper Suprime-Cam will identify more filaments, which will serve as a new probe of structure formation in the Universe.

arXiv comment9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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