Properties of Galaxy Clusters: Mass and Correlation Functions

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1998-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810189v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.307:949,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to MNRAS. 20 pages. 14 postscript figures. Also available at http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~fabio/index.html

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02706.x

We analyse parallel N-body simulations of three Cold Dark Matter (CDM) universes to study the abundance and clustering of galaxy clusters. The simulations cover a volume comparable to the forthcoming SDSS. We are able to make robust measurements of cluster properties to a redshift larger than unity. We extract halos using two independent, public domain group finders (FOF & HOP) and find consistent results. The correlation function of clusters is in very good agreement with a simple analytic prescription based upon a Lagrangian biasing scheme developed by Mo & White (1996) and the Press-Schechter (PS) formalism for the mass function. The R_0--D_c relation for the open CDM model is in good agreement with the results from the APM Cluster Survey. The SCDM universe shows a robust deviation in the shape and evolution of the mass function when compared with that predicted by the PS formalism. Critical models with a low sigma_8 normalization or small shape parameter Gamma show an excess of massive clusters compared with the PS prediction. When cluster normalized, the SCDM universe at z =1 contains 10 times more clusters with temperatures greater than 7keV, compared with the PS prediction. The agreement between the analytic and N-body mass functions of SCDM can be improved if the value of the delta_c (the extrapolated linear theory threshold for collapse) is revised to be $ delta_c(z) = 1.685[(0.7/sigma_8)(1+z)]^{-0.125}. Our best estimate for the amplitude of fluctuations inferred from the local cluster abundance for SCDM is sigma_{8} = 0.5 \pm 0.04. However, the discrepancy between the temperature function predicted in a critical density universe and that observed at z=0.33 (Henry et al. 1998) remains. (abridged)

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