Substructures within Substructures in the Complex Postmerging System A514 Unveiled by High-resolution Magellan/Megacam Weak Lensing

Ahn, Eunmo ;  Jee, M. James ;  Lee, Wonki ;  Joo, Hyungjin ;  ZuHone, John

 Abell 514 (A514) at z = 0.071 is an intriguing merging system exhibiting highly elongated (∼1 Mpc) X-ray features and three large-scale (300 ∼ 500 kpc) bent radio jets. To dissect this system with its multiwavelength data, it is critical to robustly identify and quantify its dark matter substructures. We present a weak-lensing analysis of A514 using deep Magellan/Megacam observations. Combining two optical band filter imaging data obtained under optimal seeing (∼0.″6) and leveraging the proximity of A514, we achieve a high source density of or ∼6940 Mpc‑2, which enables high-resolution mass reconstruction. We unveil the complex dark matter substructures of A514, which are characterized by the NW and SE subclusters separated by ∼0.7 Mpc, each exhibiting a bimodal mass distribution. The total mass of the NW subcluster is estimated to be and is further resolved into the eastern ( and western ( ) components. The mass of the SE subcluster is , which is also further resolved into the northern ( ) and southern ( ) components. These four substructures coincide with the A514 brightest galaxies and are detected with significances ranging from 3.3σ to 4.7σ. Comparison of the dark matter substructures with the X-ray distribution suggests that A514 might have experienced an off-axis collision, and the NW and SE subclusters are currently near their apocenters.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...973...79A/abstract