Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-05-29
Astrophys.J. 585 (2003) 182-190
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
AASTeX, 25 pages, including 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, vol.585, March 2003
Scientific paper
10.1086/345981
The mass function of clusters of galaxies is determined from 400 deg^2 of early commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; ~300 clusters in the redshift range z = 0.1 - 0.2 are used. Clusters are selected using two independent selection methods: a Matched Filter and a red-sequence color magnitude technique. The two methods yield consistent results. The cluster mass function is compared with large-scale cosmological simulations. We find a best-fit cluster normalization relation of sigma_8*omega_m^0.6 = 0.33 +- 0.03 (for 0.1 ~< omega_m ~< 0.4), or equivalently sigma_8 = (0.16/omega_m)^0.6. The amplitude of this relation is significantly lower than the previous canonical value, implying that either omega_m is lower than previously expected (omega_m = 0.16 if sigma_8 = 1) or sigma_8 is lower than expected (sigma_8 = 0.7 if omega_m = 0.3). The best-fit mass function parameters are omega_m = 0.19 (+0.08,-0.07) and sigma_8 = 0.9 (+0.3,-0.2). High values of omega_m (>= 0.4) and low sigma_8 (=< 0.6) are excluded at >~ 2 sigma.
Annis James
Bahcall Neta A.
Bode Paul
Brinkmann Jon
Dong Feng
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