Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-10-19
Astrophys.J. 498 (1998) 60-66
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages incl 5 figures, final version for ApJ, corrected open universe \gamma relation, results unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1086/305514
We re-examine the constraints which can be robustly obtained from the observed temperature function of X-ray cluster of galaxies. The cluster mass function has been thoroughly studied in simulations and analytically, but a direct simulation of the temperature function is presented here for the first time. Adaptive hydrodynamic simulations using the cosmological Moving Mesh Hydro code of Pen (1997a) are used to calibrate the temperature function for different popular cosmologies. Applying the new normalizations to the present-day cluster abundances, we find $\sigma_8=0.53\pm 0.05 \Omega_0^{-0.45}$ for a hyperbolic universe, and $\sigma_8=0.53\pm 0.05 \Omega_0^{-0.53}$ for a spatially flat universe with a cosmological constant. The simulations followed the gravitational shock heating of the gas and dark matter, and used a crude model for potential energy injection by supernova heating. The error bars are dominated by uncertainties in the heating/cooling models. We present fitting formulae for the mass-temperature conversions and cluster abundances based on these simulations.
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