Fossil groups by gravitational lensing

• Grant number: 10/04009-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Extragalactic Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Serra Cypriano
• Grantee: Felipe Nascimento de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Fossil groups, which are galaxy systems where the gap in magnitude between the twofirst ranked members is larger than two magnitudes, are probably the most relaxed darkmatter haloes with high masses (M > 10^13M_Sun). In this project, by the use of imaging datacoming from world class telescopes (4-6m) with large field-of-view, we will investigatethese groups by using weak-lensing techniques. In particular we intend to find out whetheror not fossils groups are indeed relaxed systems and whether they are more concentratedthan normal galaxy systems, as expected.