CLASH: THE CONCENTRATION-MASS RELATION OF GALAXY CLUSTERS

Merten, J.; Meneghetti, M.; Postman, M.; Umetsu, K.; Zitrin, A.; Medezinski, E.; Nonino, M.; Koekemoer, A.; Melchior, P.; Gruen, D.; Moustakas, L. A.; Bartelmann, M.; Host, O.; Donahue, M.; Coe, D.; Molino, A.; Jouvel, S.; Monna, A.; Seitz, S.; Czakon, N.; Lemze, D.; Sayers, J.; Balestra, I.; Rosati, P.; Benitez, N.; Biviano, A.; Bouwens, R.; Bradley, L.; Broadhurst, T.; Carrasco, M.; Ford, H.; Grillo, C.; Infante, L.; Kelson, D.; Lahav, O.; Massey, R.; Moustakas, J.; Rasia, E.; Rhodes, J.; Vega, J.; Zheng, W.
2015
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/4
We present a new determination of the concentration-mass (c-M) relation for galaxy clusters based on our comprehensive lensing analysis of 19 X-ray selected galaxy clusters from the Cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH). Our sample spans a redshift range between 0.19 and 0.89. We combine weak-lensing constraints from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and from ground-based wide-field data with strong lensing constraints from HST. The results are reconstructions of the surface-mass density for all CLASH clusters on multi-scale grids. Our derivation of Navarro-Frenk-White parameters yields virial masses between 0.53 x 10(15) M-circle dot/h and 1.76 x 10(15) M-circle dot/h and the halo concentrations are distributed around c(200c) similar to 3.7 with a 1 sigma significant negative slope with cluster mass. We find an excellent 4% agreement in the median ratio of our measured concentrations for each cluster and the respective expectation from numerical simulations after accounting for the CLASH selection function based on X-ray morphology. The simulations are analyzed in two dimensions to account for possible biases in the lensing reconstructions due to projection effects. The theoretical c-M relation from our X-ray selected set of simulated clusters and the c-M relation derived directly from the CLASH data agree at the 90% confidence level.