Cosmology Using Cluster Internal Velocity Dispersions

Details Cosmology Using Cluster Internal Velocity Dispersions Cosmology Using Cluster Internal Velocity Dispersions

1997-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702154v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

28 pages, LaTeX uses Elsevier style file, 7 postscript figures (3 bitmapped to lower res.) included. Submitted to New Astronom

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1384-1076(97)00013-4

We compare the distribution of internal velocity dispersions of galaxy clusters for an observational sample to those obtained from a set of N-body simulations of seven COBE-normalised cosmological scenarios: the standard CDM (SCDM) and a tilted (n=0.85) CDM (TCDM) model, a CHDM model with 25% of massive neutrinos, two low-density LCDM models with Omega_0=0.3 and 0.5, two open OCDM models with Omega_0=0.4 and 0.6. Simulated clusters are observed in projection so as to reproduce the main observational biases and are analysed by applying the same algorithm for interlopers removal and velocity dispersion estimate as for the reference observational sample. Velocity dispersions for individual clusters can be largely affected by observational biases in a model-dependent way: models in which clusters had less time to virialize show larger discrepancies between 3D and projected velocity dispersions. From the comparison with real clusters we find that both SCDM and TCDM largely overproduce clusters. The CHDM model marginally overproduces clusters and requires a somewhat larger sigma_8 than a purely CDM model in order to produce the same cluster abundance. The LCDM model with Omega_0=0.3 agrees with data, while the open model with Omega_0=0.4 and 0.6 underproduces and marginally overproduces clusters, respectively.

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