The REFLEX galaxy cluster survey -: VII.: Ωm and σ8 from cluster abundance and large-scale clustering

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作者
Schuecker, P
Böhringer, H
Collins, CA
Guzzo, L
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, D-85740 Garching, Germany
[2] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Astrophys Res Inst, Birkenhead CH41 1LD, Merseyside, England
[3] INAF, Osservatorio Brera, I-22055 Merate, LC, Italy
关键词
cosmology : cosmological parameters; X-rays : galaxies : clusters;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361:20021715
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
For the first time the large-scale clustering and the mean abundance of galaxy clusters are analysed simultaneously to get precise constraints on the normalized cosmic matter density Omega(m) and the linear theory RMS fluctuations in mass sigma(8). A self-consistent likelihood analysis is described which combines, in a natural and optimal manner, a battery of sensitive cosmological tests where observational data are represented by the (Karhunen-Loeve) eigenvectors of the sample correlation matrix. This method breaks the degeneracy between Omega(m) and sigma(8). The cosmological tests are performed with the ROSAT ESO Flux-Limited X-ray (REFLEX) cluster sample. The computations assume cosmologically flat geometries and a non-evolving cluster population mainly over the redshift range 0 < z < 0.3. The REFLEX sample gives the cosmological constraints and their 1sigma random errors of Omega(m) = 0.341(-0.029)(+0.031) and sigma(8) = 0.711(-0.031)(+0.039). Possible systematic errors are evaluated by estimating the effects of uncertainties in the value of the Hubble constant, the baryon density, the spectral slope of the initial scalar fluctuations, the mass/X-ray luminosity relation and its intrinsic scatter, the biasing scheme, and the cluster mass density profile. All these contributions sum up to total systematic errors of sigma(Omegam) = (+0.087)(-0.071) and sigmasigma8 =(+0.120)(-0.162).
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