• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stz404
• Corpus ID: 119495547

Weak lensing constraints on splashback around massive clusters

@article{Contigiani2019WeakLC,
  title={Weak lensing constraints on splashback around massive clusters},
  author={Omar Contigiani and Henk Hoekstra and Yannick M Bah{\'e}},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2019}
}

• O. Contigiani, H. Hoekstra, Y. Bahé
• Published 26 September 2018
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The splashback radius $r_\text{sp}$ separates the physical regimes of collapsed and infalling material around massive dark matter haloes. In cosmological simulations, this location is associated with a steepening of the spherically averaged density profile $\rho(r)$. In this work, we measure the splashback feature in the stacked weak gravitational lensing signal of $27$ massive clusters from the Cluster Canadian Comparison Project with a careful control of residual systematics effects. We find that the shear introduced by the presence of additional structure along the line of sight significantly affects the noise at large clustercentric distances. We do not detect a significant steepening, but we are able to constrain both $r_\text{sp}=3.6^{+1.2}_{-0.7}$ comoving Mpc and the value of the logarithmic slope $\gamma = \log \rho / \log r$ at this point, $\gamma(r_\text{sp}) = -4.2^{+1.0}_{-1.8}$.