A gravitational lensing detection of filamentary structures connecting luminous red galaxies

Abstract

We present a weak lensing detection of filamentary structures in the cosmic web, combining data from the Kilo-Degree Survey, the Red Cluster Sequence Lensing Survey and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey. The line connecting luminous red galaxies with a separation of $3-5h^{-1}\text{Mpc}$ is chosen as a proxy for the location of filaments. We measure the average weak lensing shear around $\sim$11,000 candidate filaments selected in this way from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. After nulling the shear induced by the dark matter haloes around each galaxy, we report a $3.4\sigma$ detection of an anisotropic shear signal from the matter that connects them. Adopting a filament density profile, motivated from $N$-body simulations, the average density at the centre of these filamentary structures is found to be $15\pm 4$ times the critical density.

arXiv comment13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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