Mass distribution in the core of MACS J1206: Robust modeling from an exceptionally large sample of central multiple images
@article{Caminha2017MassDI, title={Mass distribution in the core of MACS J1206: Robust modeling from an exceptionally large sample of central multiple images}, author={Gabriel Bartosch Caminha and Claudio Grillo and Piero Rosati and Massimo Meneghetti and Amata Mercurio and Stefano Ettori and Italo Balestra and Andrea Biviano and Keiichi Umetsu and Eros Vanzella and Marianna Annunziatella and Mario Bonamigo and Camilo Delgado-Correal and Marisa Girardi and Marco Lombardi and Mario Nonino and Barbara Sartoris and Paolo Tozzi and Matthias Bartelmann and Larry D. Bradley and Karina I. Caputi and Dan Coe and Holland C. Ford and Raphael Gobat and Marc Postman and Stella Seitz and Adi Zitrin}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2017}, volume={607}, pages={1-21} }
We present a new strong lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (MACS 1206), at z = 0 : 44, using deep spectroscopy from CLASH-VLT and VLT/MUSE archival data in combination with imaging from the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble. MUSE observations enable the spectroscopic identification of 23 new multiply imaged sources, extending the previous compilations by a factor of approximately five. In total, we use the positional measurements of 82 spectroscopic multiple…
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