Hubble Space Telescope and Hyper-Suprime-Cam Weak-lensing Study of the Equal-mass Dissociative Merger CIZA J0107.7+5408

Kyle Finner, Scott W. Randall, M. James Jee, Elizabeth L. Blanton, Hyejeon Cho, Tracy E. Clarke, Simona Giacintucci, Paul Nulsen, and Reinout van Weeren

A dissociative merger is formed by the interplay of ram pressure and gravitational forces, which can lead to a spatial displacement of the dark matter and baryonic components of the recently collided subclusters. CIZA J0107.7+5408 is a nearby (z = 0.105) dissociative merger that hosts two X-ray brightness peaks and a bimodal galaxy distribution. Analyzing MMT/Hectospec observations, we investigate the line-of-sight and spatial distribution of cluster galaxies. Utilizing deep, high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging and large field-of-view Subaru Hyper-Suprime-Cam observations, we perform a weak-lensing analysis of CIZA J0107.7+5408. Our weak-lensing analysis detects a bimodal mass distribution that is spatially consistent with the cluster galaxies but significantly offset from the X-ray brightness peaks. Fitting two Navarro–Frenk–White halos to the lensing signal, we find an equal-mass merger with subcluster masses of  M_⊙ and  M_⊙. Moreover, the mass-to-light ratios of the subclusters,  and , are found to be consistent with each other and within the range of mass-to-light ratios found for galaxy clusters.

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 942, Issue 1, id.23, 11 pp.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...942...23F/abstract