Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-12-20
JCAP03(2012)023
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
25 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, matches the JCAP accepted version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/023
We present forecast errors on a wide range of cosmological parameters obtained from a photometric cluster catalogue of a future wide-field Euclid-like survey. We focus in particular on the total neutrino mass as constrained by a combination of the galaxy cluster number counts and correlation function. For the latter we consider only the shape information and the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), while marginalising over the spectral amplitude and the redshift space distortions. In addition to the cosmological parameters of the standard LCDM+nu model we also consider a non-vanishing curvature, and two parameters describing a redshift evolution for the dark energy equation of state. For completeness, we also marginalise over a set of "nuisance" parameters, representing the uncertainties on the cluster mass determination. We find that combining cluster counts with power spectrum information greatly improves the constraining power of each probe taken individually, with errors on cosmological parameters being reduced by up to an order of magnitude. In particular, the best improvements are for the parameters defining the dynamical evolution of dark energy, where cluster counts break degeneracies. Moreover, the resulting error on neutrino mass is at the level of \sigma(M_\nu)\sim 0.9 eV, comparable with that derived from present Ly-alpha forest measurements and Cosmic Microwave background (CMB) data in the framework of a non-flat Universe. Further adopting Planck priors and reducing the number of free parameters to a LCDM+nu cosmology allows to place constraints on the total neutrino mass of \sigma(M_\nu) \sim 0.08 eV, close to the lower bound enforced by neutrino oscillation experiments. [abridged]
Carbone Carmelita
Cimatti Andrea
Fedeli Cosimo
Moscardini Lauro
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