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A comprehensive separation of dark matter and baryonic mass components in galaxy clusters – II: an overview of the mass distribution in Abell S1063
Beauchesne, Benjamin; Clément, Benjamin; Limousin, Marceau et al.
2026 • In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 550 (2)
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Keywords :
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: clusters: individual: Abell S1063; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: stellar content; gravitational lensing: strong; X-rays: galaxies: clusters; Galaxies clusters; Galaxies: clusters: General; Galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo; Galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: cluster: individual: abell s1063; Galaxy:stellar content; Gravitational lensing: strong; Intra-cluster; Mass models; X-rays galaxies clusters; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Space and Planetary Science
Abstract :
[en] In the first paper of this series, we derived mass constraints on the total mass and the baryonic components of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. The main focus was to recover stellar masses and kinematics for cluster members, the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) and the intra-cluster light (ICL). In this second paper, we introduce a multi-probe mass modelling approach that incorporates constraints on both the total mass and the individual baryonic components. We obtain comprehensive mass models of Abell S1063, in which the dark matter distribution is disentangled from the baryonic mass at both cluster and galaxy scales. The best-fitting mass model achieves an RMS of (Formula presented) on the positions of strongly lensed multiple images. The kinematic profiles of the BCG & ICL, as well as the X-ray surface brightness of the intra-cluster gas, are accurately reproduced within observational uncertainties. However, a (Formula presented) scatter is required for the cluster member line-of-sight dispersions. This method yields the most complex parametric mass model with consistency among almost all available mass constraints. We find a (Formula presented) agreement between the inferred stellar-to-subhalo mass relation and that predicted by large-scale cosmological simulations. The ICL stellar mass derived from our model is consistent with estimates from stellar population modelling. We present the first multi-probe mass modelling method capable of disentangling the dark matter from the baryonic mass distributions in massive galaxy clusters. Its results, such as the stellar-to-subhalo mass relation or the distribution of each mass component, can be directly compared to hydrodynamical cosmological simulations such as illustrisTNG.
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Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Beauchesne, Benjamin ;  Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom ; Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Clément, Benjamin;  Institute of Physics, Laboratory of Astrophysics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Versoix, Switzerland
Limousin, Marceau;  Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
Niemiec, Anna;  Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC IN2P3, Grenoble, France
Jauzac, Mathilde ;  Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom ; Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom ; Astrophysics Research Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa ; School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Alcalde Pampliega, Belén;  ESO Vitacura, Vitacura, Chile ; Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile ; SKA Observatory, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Richard, Johan ;  Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon1, Ens de Lyon, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL) UMR5574, Saint-Genis-Laval, France
Mahler, Guillaume  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Multi-wavelength Extragalactic and Galactic Astrophysics (MEGA) ; STAR Institute, Liège, Belgium
Diego, Jose M ;  Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain
Hibon, Pascale ;  ESO Vitacura, Vitacura, Chile
Koekemoer, Anton M ;  Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, United States
Connor, Thomas;  Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States
Kneib, Jean-Paul;  Institute of Physics, Laboratory of Astrophysics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Versoix, Switzerland
Faisst, Andreas L;  Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, United States
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Language :
English
Title :
A comprehensive separation of dark matter and baryonic mass components in galaxy clusters – II: an overview of the mass distribution in Abell S1063
Publication date :
August 2026
Journal title :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN :
0035-8711
eISSN :
1365-2966
Publisher :
Oxford University Press
Volume :
550
Issue :
2
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
SNSF - Swiss National Science Foundation
CNRS - French National Centre for Scientific Research
CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales
Funding text :
The authors are grateful to the referee for carefully reading the manuscript and for valuable suggestions and comments, which helped improve and clarify it. The authors thank Massimo Meneghetti, Rapha\u00EBl Gavazzi, Michaela Hirschmann, and Mireia Montes for their helpful discussions at various stages of the project. The computations were performed at the University of Geneva using Yggdrasil and Boabab HPC services. BB acknowledges the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for supporting this work. ML acknowledges the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Centre National des Etudes Spatiale (CNES) for support. MJ is supported by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship \u2018Using Cosmic Beasts to uncover the Nature of Dark Matter\u2019 (grant number MR/X006069/1).
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