Constraints on Cosmology and Gravity from the Growth of X-ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters

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Feb 2010

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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #34.18; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.713

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I will present simultaneous constraints on galaxy cluster X-ray scaling relations and models of cosmology and gravity obtained from observations of the growth of massive clusters. The data set consists of 238 flux-selected clusters at redshifts z≤0.5 drawn from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, and incorporates extensive Chandra follow-up observations. Our results on the scaling relations are consistent with excess heating of the intracluster medium, although the evolution of the relations remains consistent with the predictions of simple gravitational collapse models. For spatially flat, constant-w cosmological models, the cluster data yield Ωm=0.23±0.04, σ8=0.82±0.05, and w=-1.01±0.20, including conservative allowances for systematic uncertainties. Our results are consistent and competitive with a variety of independent cosmological data. In evolving-w models, marginalizing over transition redshifts in the range 0.05-1, the combination of the growth of structure data with the cosmic microwave background, supernovae, cluster gas mass fractions and baryon acoustic oscillations constrains the dark energy equation of state at late and early times to be respectively w0=-0.88±0.21 and wet=-1.05+0.20-0.36. Applying this combination of data to the problem of determining fundamental neutrino properties, we place an upper limit on the species-summed neutrino mass at 0.33eV (95% CL) and constrain the effective number of relativistic species to 3.4±0.6. In addition to dark energy and related problems, such data can be used to test the predictions of General Relativity. Introducing the standard Peebles/Linder parametrization of the linear growth rate, we use the cluster data to constrain the growth of structure, independent of the expansion of the Universe. Our analysis provides a tight constraint on the combination γ(σ8/0.8)6.8=0.55+0.13-0.10, and is simultaneously consistent with the predictions of relativity (γ=0.55) and the cosmological constant expansion model. This work was funded by NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Stanford University.

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