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Measuring the mass distribution of voids with stacked weak lensing

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 432, Issue 2, Pages 1021-1031

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt521

Keywords

gravitational lensing: weak; large-scale structure of Universe

Funding

  1. FIRST programme eSubaru Measurements of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe)
  2. World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative)
  3. MEXT, Japan
  4. JSPS [23740161]
  5. JSPS Promotion of Science [23740161, 23540324]
  6. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23540324, 23740161] Funding Source: KAKEN

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We study the prospects for measuring the dark matter distribution of voids with stacked weak lensing. We select voids from a large set of N-body simulations and explore their lensing signals with the full ray-tracing simulations including the effect of the large-scale structure along the line of sight. The lensing signals are compared with simple void model predictions to infer the three-dimensional mass distribution of voids. We show that the stacked weak lensing signals are detected at a significant level (S/N >= 5) for a 5000 degree(2) survey area, for a wide range of void radii up to similar to 50 Mpc. The error from the galaxy shape noise little affects lensing signals at large scale. It is also found that dense ridges around voids have a great impact on the weak lensing signals, suggesting that proper modelling of the void density profile including surrounding ridges is essential for extracting the average total underdense mass of voids.

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