The Most Massive Distant Clusters: Determining Omega and sigma_8

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1998-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803277v1

Astrophys.J.504:1,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 4 Postscript figures, ApJ in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/306088

The existence of the three most massive clusters of galaxies observed so far at z>0.5 is used to constrain the mass density parameter of the universe, Omega, and the amplitude of mass fluctuations, sigma_8. We find Omega=0.2 (+0.3,-0.1), and sigma_8=1.2 (+0.5,-0.4) (95 %). We show that the existence of even the single most distant cluster at z=0.83, MS1054-03, with its large gravitational lensing mass, high temperature, and large velocity dispersion, is sufficient to establish powerful constraints. High-density, Omega=1 (sigma_8 ~ 0.5-0.6) Gaussian models are ruled out by these data (< 10^{-6} probability); the Omega=1 models predict only ~10^{-5} massive clusters at z > 0.65 (~10^{-3} at z > 0.5) instead of the 1 (3) clusters observed.

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