Constraining Lambda using cluster quadrupoles

Details Constraining Lambda using cluster quadrupoles Constraining Lambda using cluster quadrupoles

2001-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106551v1

Astrophys.J. 564 (2002) 1-7

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for pubblication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/324185

We examine how the statistics of the quadrupoles of (projected) cluster masses can discriminate between flat cold dark matter (CDM) universes with or without a cosmological constant term. Even in the era of high precision cosmology that cosmic microwave background experiments should open soon, it is important to devise self consistency tests of cosmogonic theories tuned at the matter radiation decoupling epoch using data from the non--linear evolved universe. We build cluster catalogs from two large volume simulations of a ``tilted'' CDM model and a $\Lambda$CDM model with cosmic density parameter $\Omega_m=0.35$ and cosmological constant contribution $\Omega_\Lambda=0.65$. From the projected mass distribution of the clusters we work out the quadrupoles Q and examine their dependence on cluster mass and the cosmological model. We find that TCDM clusters have systematically larger quadrupoles than their \lcdm counterpart. The effect is mass dependent: massive clusters ($M\gsim 10^{15}\Msunh$) have quadrupoles differing by more than 30% in the two models, while for $M\lsim 4\times10^{14}\Msunh$ the difference rapidly drops to $\sim 1$%. Performing a K-S test of the Q distributions, we estimate that using just the 15 most massive clusters in the simulation volume ($360\Mpch$ a side) we can discriminate between TCDM and \lcdm at a confidence level better than 99.9%. In the volume probed by exhisting observations, there are potentially several hundred clusters with masses above the threshold for which the differences in the quadrupoles become relevant. Should weak lensing data become available for this whole set, a quadrupole analysis may be expected to discriminate among different values of $\Lambda$.

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