Abundance of moderate-redshift clusters in the Cold + Hot dark matter model

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1994-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9403012v1

Astrophys.J. 432 (1994) 438

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages + 6 figures (uuencoded version of the PS files), Steward Preprints No. 1184

Scientific paper

10.1086/174582

Using a set of $\pppm$ simulation which accurately treats the density evolution of two components of dark matter, we study the evolution of clusters in the Cold + Hot dark matter (CHDM) model. The mass function, the velocity dispersion function and the temperature function of clusters are calculated for four different epochs of $z\le 0.5$. We also use the simulation data to test the Press-Schechter expression of the halo abundance as a function of the velocity dispersion $\sigma_v$. The model predictions are in good agreement with the observational data of local cluster abundances ($z=0$). We also tentatively compare the model with the Gunn and his collaborators' observation of rich clusters at $z\approx 0.8$ and with the x-ray luminous clusters at $z\approx 0.5$ of the {\it Einstein} Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey. The important feature of the model is the rapid formation of clusters in the near past: the abundances of clusters of $\sigma_v\ge 700\kms$ and of $\sigma_v\ge 1200 \kms$ at $z=0.5$ are only 1/4 and 1/10 respectively of the present values ($z=0$). Ongoing ROSAT and AXAF surveys of distant clusters will provide sensitive tests to the model. The abundance of clusters at $z\approx 0.5$ would also be a good discriminator between the CHDM model and a low-density flat CDM model both of which show very similar clustering properties at $z=0$.

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