Cosmological Constraints from the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey

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1999-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901017v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 9 colour figures, LateX, uses apj.sty, ApJ, in press, May 20 issue

Scientific paper

10.1086/307158

The ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey (RDCS) has provided a new large deep sample of X-ray selected galaxy clusters. Observables such as the flux number counts n(S), the redshift distribution n(z) and the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) over a large redshift baseline (z\lesssim 0.8) are used here in order to constrain cosmological models. Our analysis is based on the Press-Schechter approach, whose reliability is tested against N-body simulations. Following a phenomenological approach, no assumption is made a priori on the relation between cluster masses and observed X-ray luminosities. As a first step, we use the local XLF from RDCS, along with the high-luminosity extension provided by the XLF from the BCS, in order to constrain the amplitude of the power spectrum, \sigma_8, and the shape of the local luminosity-temperature relation. We obtain \sigma_8=0.58 +/- 0.06 for Omega_0=1 for open models at 90% confidence level, almost independent of the L-T shape. The density parameter \Omega_0 and the evolution of the L-T relation are constrained by the RDCS XLF at z>0 and the EMSS XLF at z=0.33, and by the RDCS n(S) and n(z) distributions. By modelling the evolution for the amplitude of the L-T relation as (1+z)^A, an \Omega_0=1 model can be accommodated for the evolution of the XLF with 1

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