Statistics of Giant Arcs in Galaxy Clusters

Abstract

We study the expected properties and statistics of giant arcs produced by galaxy clusters in a LambdaCDM universe and investigate how the characteristics of CDM clusters determine the properties of the arcs they generate. Due to the triaxiality and substructure of CDM halos, the giant arc cross section for individual clusters varies by more than an order of magnitude as a function of viewing angle. In addition, the shallow density cusps and triaxiality of CDM clusters cause systematic alignments of giant arcs which should be testable with larger samples from forthcoming lensing surveys. We compute the predicted statistics of giant arcs for the LambdaCDM model and compare to results from previous surveys. The predicted arc statistics are in excellent agreement with the numbers of giant arcs observed around low redshift (0.2 < z < 0.6) clusters from the EMSS sample, however there are hints of a possible excess of arcs observed around high redshift z > 0.6 clusters. This excess, if real, appears to be due to the presence of highly massive or concentrated clusters at high redshifts.

11 pages, emulateapj, submitted to ApJ

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