Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-11-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
37 pages, Latex file, 9 figures; New Astronomy, in press
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(96)00021-8
(Shortened Abstract). We analyze a redshift sample of Abell/ACO clusters and compare them with numerical simulations based on the truncated Zel'dovich approximation (TZA), for a list of eleven dark matter (DM) models. For each model we run several realizations, on which we estimate cosmic variance effects. We analyse correlation statistics, the probability density function, and supercluster properties from percolation analysis. As a general result, we find that the distribution of galaxy clusters provides a constraint only on the shape of the power spectrum, but not on its amplitude: a shape parameter 0.18 < \Gamma < 0.25 and an effective spectral index at 20Mpc/h in the range [-1.1,-0.9] are required by the Abell/ACO data. In order to obtain complementary constraints on the spectrum amplitude, we consider the cluster abundance as estimated using the Press--Schechter approach, whose reliability is explicitly tested against N--body simulations. We conclude that, of the cosmological models considered here, the only viable models are either Cold+Hot DM ones with \Omega_\nu = [0.2-0.3], better if shared between two massive neutrinos, and flat low-density CDM models with \Omega_0 = [0.3-0.5].
Borgani Stefano
Górski Kris M.
Holtzman Jon
Klypin Anatoly
Moscardini Lauro
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