Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 9 figures, LateX, uses psfig.tex and mn.sty, to appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02468.x
We present an analysis of the 2-point correlation function, of the X-ray Brightest Abell-type Cluster sample (XBACs; Ebeling et al. 1998) and of the cosmological constraints that it provides. If \xi(r) is modelled as a power-law, we find r_0=26.0 +/- 4.5 Mpc/h and \gamma=2.0 +/-0.4, with errors corresponding to 2\sigma uncertainties. Only a marginal increase of the correlation amplitude is found as the flux limit is increased from 5x10^{-12} cgs to 12x10^{-12} cgs, thus indicating a weak dependence of the correlation amplitude on the cluster X-ray luminosity. Furthermore, we present a method to predict correlation functions for flux-limited X-ray cluster samples from cosmological models. The method is based on the analytical recipe by Mo & White (1996) and on an empirical approach to convert cluster fluxes into masses. We use a maximum-likelihood method to place constraints on the model parameter space. We find that the shape parameter of the power spectrum lies in the 2\sigma range 0.05<\Gamma<0.20. As for the amplitude of the power-spectrum, we find \sigma_8 in the range 0.4-0.8 for \Omega_0=1 and 0.8-2.0 for \Omega_0=0.3. This result is in agreement with, although less constraining than, results based on the local cluster abundance.
Borgani Stefano
Kolokotronis E.
Plionis Manolis
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