Journal Articles Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Year : 2021

Improving parametric mass modelling of lensing clusters through a perturbative approach

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We present a new method to model the mass distribution of galaxy clusters that combines a parametric and a free-form approach to reconstruct cluster cores with strong lensing constraints. It aims at combining the advantages of both approaches, by keeping the robustness of the parametric component with an increased flexibility thanks to a free-form surface of B-spline functions. We demonstrate the capabilities of this new approach on the simulated cluster Hera, which has been used to evaluate lensing codes for the analysis of the Frontier Fields clusters. The method leads to better reproduction of the constraints, with an improvement by a factor of ∼3–4 on the root mean square error on multiple-image positions, when compared to parametric-only approaches. The resulting models show a better accuracy in the reconstruction of the amplitude of the convergence field while conserving a high fidelity on other lensing observables already well reproduced. We make this method publicly available through its implementation in the lenstool software.

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hal-03268882 , version 1 (30-04-2023)

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Benjamin Beauchesne, Benjamin Clément, Johan Richard, Jean-Paul Kneib. Improving parametric mass modelling of lensing clusters through a perturbative approach. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, 506 (2), pp.2002-2019. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stab1684⟩. ⟨hal-03268882⟩
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