The K-band Hubble diagram for brightest cluster galaxies in X-ray clusters

Details The K-band Hubble diagram for brightest cluster galaxies in X-ray clusters The K-band Hubble diagram for brightest cluster galaxies in X-ray clusters

1997-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712104v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 15 pages, 13 Postscript figs included. Uses epsfig and mn.sty

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01482.x

This paper concerns the K band Hubble diagram for the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in a sample of X-ray clusters covering the redshift range $0.05 2.3 \times 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (in the 0.3 - 3.5 keV band) is no more than 0.22 mag, and is not significantly reduced by correcting for the BCG structure parameter, $\alpha$, or for X-ray luminosity. This is the smallest scatter in the absolute magnitudes of any single class of galaxy and demonstrates the homogeneity of BCGs in high-$L_{\rm X}$ clusters. By contrast, we find that the brightest members of low-$L_{\rm X}$ systems display a wider dispersion ($\sim 0.5$ mag) in absolute magnitude than commonly seen in previous studies, which arises from the inclusion, in X-ray flux-limited samples, of poor clusters and groups which are usually omitted from low redshift studies of BCGs in optically rich clusters....[abstract shortened].. The BCGs in our high-$L_{\rm X}$ clusters yield a value of $\Omega_{\rm M}=0.28\pm0.24$ if the cosmological constant $\Lambda=0$. For a flat Universe we find $\Omega_{\rm M}=0.55^{+0.14}_{-0.15}$ with a 95 per cent confidence upper limit to the cosmological constant corresponding to $\Omega_{\Lambda}<0.73$. These results are discussed in the context of other methods used to constrain the density of the Universe, such as Type Ia supernovae.

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