Clusters in the Precision Cosmology Era

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2001-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103049v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Contributed talk at 20th Texas Symposium

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1419569

Over the coming decade, the observational samples available for studies of cluster abundance evolution will increase from tens to hundreds, or possibly to thousands, of clusters. Here we assess the power of future surveys to determine cosmological parameters. We quantify the statistical differences among cosmologies, including the effects of the cosmic equation of state parameter w, in mock cluster catalogs simulating a 12 sq. deg Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect survey and a deep 10^4 sq. deg X-ray survey. The constraints from clusters are complementary to those from studies of high-redshift Supernovae (SNe), CMB anisotropies, or counts of high-redshift galaxies. Our results indicate that a statistical uncertainty of a few percent on both Omega_m and w can be reached when cluster surveys are used in combination with any of these other datasets.

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