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Issue A&A
Volume 455, Number 2, August IV 2006
Page(s) 441 - 451
Section Extragalactic astronomy
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042606



A&A 455, 441-451 (2006)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20042606

Weak lensing measurements of dark matter halos of galaxies from COMBO-17

M. Kleinheinrich1, 2, P. Schneider2, H.-W. Rix1, T. Erben2, C. Wolf3, M. Schirmer2, K. Meisenheimer1, A. Borch1, S. Dye4, Z. Kovacs1 and L. Wisotzki5

1  Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
    e-mail: martina.kleinheinrich@uni-due.de
2  Institut für Astrophysik und Extraterrestrische Forschung, Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany
3  Department of Physics, Denys Wilkinson Bldg., University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
4  School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3YB, UK
5  Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

(Received 23 December 2004 / Accepted 19 April 2006 )

Abstract
We present mass estimates for dark matter halos around galaxies from the COMBO-17 survey using weak gravitational lensing. COMBO-17, with photometry in 17 optical filters, provides precise photometric redshifts and spectral classification for objects with R<24. This permits to select and sort lens and source galaxies by their redshifts and lens luminosity or color, which bypasses many uncertainties in other weak lensing analyses arising from broadly estimated source and lens redshifts. We study the shear created by dark matter halos around 12 000 galaxy lenses at redshifts z</I>d=0.2-0.7 by fitting the mass normalization of either singular isothermal spheres (SIS) or Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profiles to background source orientations around the whole lens sample. We also consider halos around blue and red subsamples separately and constrain the scaling of halo mass with light. For the NFW model, we find virial masses $M_\mathrm{vir}^*=3.9\times 10^{11}h^{-1}~M_{\odot}$ for blue and $M_\mathrm{vir}^*=7.1\times 10^{11}h^{-1}~M_{\odot}$ for red galaxies of $L_\star=10^{10}h^{-2}~L_{\odot}$, respectively. The 1-$\sigma$ uncertainty on $\log M_\mathrm{vir}^*$ for the whole lens sample is about 0.2. We compare our results to those obtained from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Taking differences in the actual modelling into account, we find very good agreement with these surveys.


Key words: gravitational lensing -- galaxies: fundamental parameters -- galaxies: statistics -- cosmology: dark matter



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