Cosmological parameters from cluster abundances, CMB and IRAS

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1999-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9903472v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02960.x

We combine information on cosmological parameters from cluster abundances, CMB primordial anisotropies and the IRAS 1.2 Jy galaxy redshift survey. We take as free parameters the present values of the total matter density of the universe, Omega_m, the Hubble parameter, h, sigma_8, and the IRAS biasing factor, b_IRAS. We assume that the universe is spatially flat, with a cosmological constant, and that structure formed from adiabatic initial fluctuations with a Harrison-Zel'dovich power spectrum. The nucleosynthesis value Omega_b=0.019/h^2 is adopted. We use the full three- and four- dimensional likelihood functions for each data set and marginalise these to two- and one- dimensional distributions in a Bayesian way, integrating over the other parameters. It is shown that the three data sets are in excellent agreement, with a best fit point of Omega_m= 1-Omega_Lambda=0.36, h=0.54, sigma_8=0.74, and b_IRAS=1.08. This point is within one sigma of the minimum for each data set alone. Pairs of these data sets have their degeneracies in sufficiently different directions that using only two data sets at a time is sufficient to place good constraints on the cosmological parameters. We show that the results from each of the three possible pairings of the data are also in good agreement. Finally, we combine all three data sets to obtain marginalised 68 per cent confidence intervals of 0.30

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