Weak Lensing Determination of the Mass in Galaxy Halos

Abstract

We detect the weak gravitational lensing distortion of 450,000 background galaxies (20<R<23) by 790 foreground galaxies (R<18) selected from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). This is the first detection of weak lensing by field galaxies of known redshift, and as such permits us to reconstruct the shear profile of the typical field galaxy halo in absolute physical units (modulo H_0), and to investigate the dependence of halo mass upon galaxy luminosity. This is also the first galaxy-galaxy lensing study for which the calibration errors are negligible. Within a projected radius of 200 \hkpc, the shear profile is consistent with an isothermal profile with circular velocity 164+-20 km/s for an L* galaxy, consistent with typical disk rotation at this luminosity. This halo mass normalization, combined with the halo profile derived by Fischer et al (2000) from lensing analysis SDSS data, places a lower limit of (2.7+-0.6) x 10^{12}h^{-1} solar masses on the mass of an L* galaxy halo, in good agreement with satellite galaxy studies. Given the known luminosity function of LCRS galaxies, and the assumption that $M\propto L^{\beta }$ for galaxies, we determine that the mass within 260\hkpc of normal galaxies contributes $\Omega =0.16\pm 0.03$ to the density of the Universe (for $\beta =1$) or $\Omega =0.24\pm 0.06$ for $\beta =0.5$. These lensing data suggest that $0.6<\beta <2.4$ (95% CL), only marginally in agreement with the usual $\beta \approx 0.5$ Faber-Jackson or Tully-Fisher scaling. This is the most complete direct inventory of the matter content of the Universe to date.

18 pages, incl. 3 figures. Submitted to ApJ 6/7/00, still no response from the referee after four months!

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