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

Richard, Johan
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Jauzac, Mathilde
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Limousin, Marceau
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2014
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

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.

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DOI
10.1093/mnras/stu1395
Web of Science ID

WOS:000342925100021

Author(s)
Richard, Johan
Jauzac, Mathilde
Limousin, Marceau
Jullo, Eric
Clement, Benjamin
Ebeling, Harald
Kneib, Jean-Paul  
Atek, Hakim  
Natarajan, Priya
Egami, Eiichi
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Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

444

Issue

1

Start page

268

End page

289

Subjects

galaxies clusters: individual: Abell 370

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galaxies clusters: individual: A1063S

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galaxies clusters: individual: Abell 2744

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galaxies clusters: individual: MACS J0416.1-2403

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galaxies clusters: individual: MACS J0717.5+3745

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galaxies clusters: individual: MACS J1149.5+2223

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