Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-05
New Astron. 9 (2004) 373-382
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.newast.2004.01.001
The strong dependence of the mass variance parameter, sigma_8, on the adopted cluster mass-temperature relation is explored. A recently compiled X-ray cluster catalog and various mass-temperature relations are used to derive the corresponding values of sigma_8. Calculations of the power spectrum of the CMB anisotropy induced by the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and cluster number counts are carried out in order to assess the need for a consistent choice of the mass-temperature scaling and the parameter sigma_8. We find that the consequences of inconsistent choice of the mass-temperature relation and sigma_8 could be quite substantial, including a considerable mis-estimation of the magnitude of the power spectrum and cluster number counts. Our results can partly explain the large scatter between published estimates of the power spectrum and number counts. We also show that the range of values of the power-law index in the scaling C_l ~ sigma_8^[6-7] deduced in previous studies is likely overestimated; we obtain a more moderate dependence, C_l ~ sigma_8^[4].
Rephaeli Yoel
Sadeh Sharon
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