A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies
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| author | To, Chun-Hao Chang, Chihway Anbajagane, Dhayaa Wechsler, Risa H. Drlica-Wagner, Alex Adamów, M. Alarcon, A. Becker, M. R. Carballo-Bello, J. A. Cawthon, R. Chicoine, N. Doux, C. Esteves, J. H. Ferguson, P. S. Gatti, M. Gruen, D. Gruendl, R. A. Herron, K. James, David J. Martínez-Vázquez, C. E. Mau, S. McCullough, J. Medina, G. E. Mutlu-Pakdil, B. Navarro-Alsina, A. Noël, N. E. D. Pace, A. B. Raveri, M. Riley, A. H. Sand, D. J. Secco, L. F. Shin, T. Stringfellow, G. S. Suson, D. Tan, C. Y. Teixeira, R. Zenteno, A. Zhang, Z. |
| author_facet | To, Chun-Hao Chang, Chihway Anbajagane, Dhayaa Wechsler, Risa H. Drlica-Wagner, Alex Adamów, M. Alarcon, A. Becker, M. R. Carballo-Bello, J. A. Cawthon, R. Chicoine, N. Doux, C. Esteves, J. H. Ferguson, P. S. Gatti, M. Gruen, D. Gruendl, R. A. Herron, K. James, David J. Martínez-Vázquez, C. E. Mau, S. McCullough, J. Medina, G. E. Mutlu-Pakdil, B. Navarro-Alsina, A. Noël, N. E. D. Pace, A. B. Raveri, M. Riley, A. H. Sand, D. J. Secco, L. F. Shin, T. Stringfellow, G. S. Suson, D. Tan, C. Y. Teixeira, R. Zenteno, A. Zhang, Z. |
| contents | We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample with well-defined redshift and stellar mass cuts enables excess surface mass density measurements in two stellar mass bins ($\log \rm{M}_*=[8.2, 9.2]~M_\odot$ and $\log \rm{M}_*=[9.2, 10.2]~M_\odot$), with signal-to-noise ratios of $5.6$ and $12.4$ respectively. This signal-to-noise drops to $4.5$ and $9.2$ respectively for measurements without applying individual inverse probability (IIP) weights, which mitigates fiber incompleteness from DESI's targeting. The measurements are robust against variations in stellar mass estimates, photometric shredding, and lensing calibration systematics. Using a simulation-based modeling framework with stellar mass function priors, we constrain the stellar mass-halo mass relation and find a satellite fraction of $\simeq 0.3$, which is higher than previous photometric studies but $1.5σ$ lower than $Λ$CDM predictions. We find that IIP weights have a significant impact on lensing measurements and can change the inferred $f_{\rm{sat}}$ by a factor of two, highlighting the need for accurate fiber incompleteness corrections for dwarf galaxy samples. Our results open a new observational window into the galaxy-halo connection at low masses, showing that future massively multiplexed spectroscopic observations and weak lensing data will enable stringent tests of galaxy formation models and $Λ$CDM predictions. |
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| spellingShingle | A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies To, Chun-Hao Chang, Chihway Anbajagane, Dhayaa Wechsler, Risa H. Drlica-Wagner, Alex Adamów, M. Alarcon, A. Becker, M. R. Carballo-Bello, J. A. Cawthon, R. Chicoine, N. Doux, C. Esteves, J. H. Ferguson, P. S. Gatti, M. Gruen, D. Gruendl, R. A. Herron, K. James, David J. Martínez-Vázquez, C. E. Mau, S. McCullough, J. Medina, G. E. Mutlu-Pakdil, B. Navarro-Alsina, A. Noël, N. E. D. Pace, A. B. Raveri, M. Riley, A. H. Sand, D. J. Secco, L. F. Shin, T. Stringfellow, G. S. Suson, D. Tan, C. Y. Teixeira, R. Zenteno, A. Zhang, Z. Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample with well-defined redshift and stellar mass cuts enables excess surface mass density measurements in two stellar mass bins ($\log \rm{M}_*=[8.2, 9.2]~M_\odot$ and $\log \rm{M}_*=[9.2, 10.2]~M_\odot$), with signal-to-noise ratios of $5.6$ and $12.4$ respectively. This signal-to-noise drops to $4.5$ and $9.2$ respectively for measurements without applying individual inverse probability (IIP) weights, which mitigates fiber incompleteness from DESI's targeting. The measurements are robust against variations in stellar mass estimates, photometric shredding, and lensing calibration systematics. Using a simulation-based modeling framework with stellar mass function priors, we constrain the stellar mass-halo mass relation and find a satellite fraction of $\simeq 0.3$, which is higher than previous photometric studies but $1.5σ$ lower than $Λ$CDM predictions. We find that IIP weights have a significant impact on lensing measurements and can change the inferred $f_{\rm{sat}}$ by a factor of two, highlighting the need for accurate fiber incompleteness corrections for dwarf galaxy samples. Our results open a new observational window into the galaxy-halo connection at low masses, showing that future massively multiplexed spectroscopic observations and weak lensing data will enable stringent tests of galaxy formation models and $Λ$CDM predictions. |
| title | A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20458 |