LoVoCCS. III. Third Generation Pipeline & The Hercules Supercluster

Abstract

The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS) is a volume-complete survey of over one-hundred nearby ($0.03<z<0.12$), X-ray luminous ($L_{500}>10^{44}{\text{ erg s}}^{-1}$) galaxy clusters in the southern sky. Observations for the survey concluded in December 2025, reaching Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Year 1-2 depth in each field and providing observations with $\lesssim 1"$ seeing for weak lensing science. In this paper, we present the latest pipeline for reducing observations using the third-generation of the LSST Science Pipelines. We use recent observations of the Hercules Supercluster to validate the pipeline's data-products and conduct an extensive multi-plane weak-lensing analysis of a $\sim 16{\text{ deg}}^2$ complex covering Abell 2147, 2151, 2152, and several additional structures. We confirm that the dynamical mass of the complex is biased due to the dynamical state of Abell 2147, which is consistent with being $\sim 0.2-0.4\text{ Gyr}$ out-of periapsis, and estimate that the total mass of the supercluster is $8.9_{-1.4}^{+1.7}\times 10^{14}{M}_{\odot }$.

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