Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2002
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20011769
We present a newly measured X-ray temperature function of galaxy clusters using a complete flux-limited sample of 61 clusters. The sample is constructed with the total survey area of 8.14 steradians and the flux limit of 1.99e-11 ergs/s/cm^2 in the 0.1-2.4keV band. X-ray temperatures and fluxes of the sample clusters were accurately measured with ASCA and ROSAT data. The derived temperature function covers an unprecedentedly wide temperature range of 1.4-11keV. By fitting these data with theoretically predicted temperature functions given by the Press-Schechter formalism together with a recent formation approximation and the CDM power spectrum, we obtained tight and individual constraints on Omega_m,0 and sigma_8. We also employed the Formation-Epoch model in which the distribution in the formation epoch of clusters as well as the temperature evolution are taken into account, showing significantly different results. Systematics caused by the uncertainty in the mass-temperature relation are studied and found to be as large as the statistical errors.
Boehringer Hans
Ikebe Yasushi
Kitayama Tetsu
Reiprich Thomas H.
Tanaka Yasuo
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