A&A 456, 409–420 (2006) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053384 & c ESO 2006 Astrophysics VIMOS-IFU survey of z ∼ 0.2 massive galaxy clusters I. Observations of the strong lensing cluster Abell 2667 G. Covone1,J.-P.Kneib1,2,G.Soucail3, J. Richard3,2, E. Jullo1, and H. Ebeling4 1 OAMP, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, UMR 6110, traverse du Siphon, 13012 Marseille, France e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Caltech-Astronomy, MC105-24, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 3 Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS-UMR 5572, 14 avenue E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France 4 Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Received 9 May 2005 / Accepted 21 December 2005 ABSTRACT We present extensive multi-color imaging and low-resolution VIMOS integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopic observations of the X-ray luminous cluster Abell 2667 (z = 0.233). An extremely bright giant gravitational arc (z = 1.0334 ± 0.0003) is easily identified as part of a triple image system, and other fainter multiple images are also revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 images. The VIMOS-IFU observations cover a field of view of 54 × 54 and enable us to determine the redshift of all galaxies down to V606 = 22.5. Furthermore, redshifts could be identified for some sources down to V606 = 23.2. In particular we σ = +190 −1 identify 21 members in the cluster core, from which we derive a velocity dispersion of 960−120 km s , corresponding to a total . ± . × 13 −1 −1 mass of 7 1 1 8 10 h70 M within a 110 h70 kpc (30 arcsec) radius.