Surveying the Sky with the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager: Expected Constraints on Galaxy Cluster Evolution and Cosmology

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2001-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103042v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 328 (2001) 783

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS. A version with higher resolution images is available at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/te

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04815.x

We discuss prospects for cluster detection via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in a blank field survey with the proposed interferometer array, the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI). Clusters of galaxies selected in the SZ effect probe cosmology and structure formation with little observational bias, because the effect directly measures integrated gas pressure, and does so independently of cluster redshift. We use hydrodynamical simulations in combination with the Press-Schechter expression to simulate SZ cluster sky maps. These are used with simulations of the observation process to gauge the expected SZ cluster counts. Even with a very conservative choice of parameters we find that AMI will discover at least several tens of clusters every year with total mass down to 10^14 solar masses; the numbers depends on factors such as the mean matter density, the density fluctuation power spectrum and cluster gas evolution. The AMI survey itself can distinguish between these to some degree, and parameter degeneracies are largely eliminated given optical and X-ray follow-up of these clusters; this will also permit direct investigation of cluster physics and what drives the evolution.

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