The case for non-gaussianity on cluster scales

Details The case for non-gaussianity on cluster scales The case for non-gaussianity on cluster scales

2004-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402461v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 353 (2004) 681

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS, references added and minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08110.x

We address whether possible scale-dependent deviations from gaussianity in the primordial density field that are consistent with the cosmic microwave background observations could explain the apparent excess of early cluster formation at high redshift. Using two phenomenological non-gaussian models we find that at fixed normalisation to the observed local abundance of massive clusters, the protoclusters observed at z~4 are significantly more likely to develop in strongly non-gaussian models than in the gaussian paradigm. We compute the relative z<1 evolution of X-ray cluster counts in the non-gaussian case with respect to the gaussian expectation, and the relative excess contribution to the CMB power spectrum due to the integrated thermal SZ effect. We find that both the observed hints of an unexpectedly slow evolution in the X-ray counts and the excess power at high l that may have been observed by CMB interferometers can also be reproduced in our non-gaussian simulations.

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