Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-01-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages (LaTeX,macros included), 9 figure.ps & 3 tables included. To appear on New Astronomy
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(99)00005-6
The global structure of galaxy clusters and its evolution are tested within a large set of TREESPH simulations, so to allow a fair statistical comparison with available X-ray data. Structure tests are based on the "power ratios", introduced by Buote & Tsai. Cosmological models considered are CDM, LCDM (Omega_L=0.7) and CHDM (1 mass.neu., Omega_h = 0.2). All models are normalized to provide a fair number density of clusters. For each model we run a P3M simulation in a large box, where we select the most massive 40 clusters. Going back to the initial redshift we run a hydro-TREESPH simulation for each of them. In this way we perform a statistical comparison of the global morphology of clusters, for each cosmological model, with ROSAT data, using Student t-test, F-test and K-S test. The last test and its generalization to 2--D distributions are also used to compare the joint distributions of 2 or 3 power ratios. We find that, using DM distribution, instead of gas, as done by some authors, leads to biased results, as baryons are distributed in a less structured way than DM. We also find that the cosmological models considered have different behaviours in these tests: LCDM has the worst performance. CDM and our CHDM have similar scores. The general trend of power ratio distributions is already fit by these models, but a further improvement is expected either from a different DM mix or a non-flat CDM model.
Bonometto Silvio A.
Ghizzardi Simona
Valdarnini Riccardo
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