Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-01-21
Phys.Rev.D67:081304,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD rapid communications
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.081304
Cluster number counts offer sensitive probes of the dark energy if and only if the_evolution_ of the cluster mass versus observable relation(s) is well calibrated. We investigate the potential for internal calibration by demanding consistency in the counts as a function of the observable. In the context of a constant dark energy equation of state, known initial fluctuation amplitude expected from the CMB, universal underlying mass function, and an idealized selection, we find that the ambiguity from the normalization of the mass-observable relationships, or an extrapolation of external mass-observable determinations from higher masses, can be largely eliminated with a sufficiently deep survey, even allowing for an arbitrary evolution. More generally, number counts as a function of both the redshift and the observable enable strong consistency tests on assumptions made in modelling the mass-observable relations and cosmology.
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