1112.4444 (Holger Israel et al.)

The 400d Galaxy Cluster Survey weak lensing programme: II: Weak lensing study of seven clusters with MMT/Megacam    [PDF]

Holger Israel, Thomas Erben, Thomas H. Reiprich, Alexey Vikhlinin, Craig L. Sarazin, Peter Schneider

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this evolution, especially at high redshift. Weak gravitational lensing is a promising tool for, on average, unbiased mass estimates. This weak lensing project aims at measuring reliable weak lensing masses for a complete X-ray selected sample of 36 high redshift (0.35View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4444