The lens SW05 J143454.4+522850: a fossil group at redshift 0.6?

Denzel, Philipp; Çatmabacak, Onur; Coles, Jonathan; Cornen, Claude; Feldmann, Robert; Ferreras, Ignacio; Gwyn Palmer, Xanthe; Küng, Rafael; Leier, Dominik; Saha, Prasenjit; Verma, Aprajita
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Fecha de publicación:
9
2021
Número de autores
11
Número de autores del IAC
1
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0
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Descripción
Fossil groups are considered the end product of natural galaxy group evolution in which group members sink towards the centre of the gravitational potential due to dynamical friction, merging into a single, massive, and X-ray bright elliptical. Since gravitational lensing depends on the mass of a foreground object, its mass concentration, and distance to the observer, we can expect lensing effects of such fossil groups to be particularly strong. This paper explores the exceptional system J143454.4+522850 (with a lens redshift zL = 0.625). We combine gravitational lensing with stellar population synthesis to separate the total mass of the lens into stars and dark matter. The enclosed mass profiles are contrasted with state-of-the-art galaxy formation simulations, to conclude that SW05 is likely a fossil group with a high stellar to dark matter mass fraction (0.027 ± 0.003) with respect to expectations from abundance matching (0.012 ± 0.004), indicative of a more efficient conversion of gas into stars in fossil groups.
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