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2014MNRAS.444..268R - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 444, 268-289 (2014/October-2)

Mass and magnification maps for the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields clusters: implications for high-redshift studies.

RICHARD J., JAUZAC M., LIMOUSIN M., JULLO E., CLEMENT B., EBELING H., KNEIB J.-P., ATEK H., NATARAJAN P., EGAMI E., LIVERMORE R. and BOWER R.

Abstract (from CDS):

Extending over three Hubble Space Telescope (HST) cycles, the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) initiative constitutes the largest commitment ever of HST time to the exploration of the distant Universe via gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters. Here, we present models of the mass distribution in the six HFF cluster lenses, derived from a joint strong- and weak-lensing analysis anchored by a total of 88 multiple-image systems identified in existing HST data. The resulting maps of the projected mass distribution and of the gravitational magnification effectively calibrate the HFF clusters as gravitational telescopes. Allowing the computation of search areas in the source plane, these maps are provided to the community to facilitate the exploitation of forthcoming HFF data for quantitative studies of the gravitationally lensed population of background galaxies. Our models of the gravitational magnification afforded by the HFF clusters allow us to quantify the lensing-induced boost in sensitivity over blank-field observations and predict that galaxies at z > 10 and as faint as m(AB) = 32 will be detectable, up to 2 mag fainter than the limit of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

Abstract Copyright: © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)

Journal keyword(s): galaxies clusters: individual: Abell 370 - galaxies clusters: individual: A1063S - galaxies clusters: individual: Abell 2744 - galaxies clusters: individual: MACS J0416.1-2403 - galaxies clusters: individual: MACS J0717.5+3745 - galaxies clusters: individual: MACS J1149.5+2223

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/444/268): clusters.dat table1.dat table2.dat table3.dat table4.dat table5.dat table6.dat>

Nomenclature: Figs 3-8, Tables 1-6: [RJL2014] ANNNN NN.N, [RJL2014] AS1063 NN.N, [RJL2014] MACS JHHMM NN.N, N=256.

CDS comments: The right bibcode for Medezinski et al. 2014 is 2013ApJ...777...43M.

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