Selection effects on X-ray and strong-lensing clusters in various cosmologies

Galaxy clusters are hotter and more X-ray luminous than in quiescence while they undergo major mergers, which also transiently increase their strong-lensing efficiency. We use semi-analytic models for both effects to study how cluster dynamics in different dark-energy models affects the X-ray select...

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Auteurs principaux: Fedeli, Cosimo (Auteur) , Bartelmann, Matthias (Auteur)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Langue:anglais
Publié: October 31, 2013
In: Arxiv

Accès en ligne:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703789
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Notes sur l'auteur:C. Fedeli and M. Bartelmann
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Résumé:Galaxy clusters are hotter and more X-ray luminous than in quiescence while they undergo major mergers, which also transiently increase their strong-lensing efficiency. We use semi-analytic models for both effects to study how cluster dynamics in different dark-energy models affects the X-ray selected cluster population and its strong-lensing optical depth. We find that mergers increase the number of observable X-ray clusters by factors of a few and considerably broaden their redshift distribution. Strong-lensing optical depths are increased by a very similar amount. Quite independent of cosmology, X-ray bright clusters above a flux limit of $10^{-13.5} \mathrm{erg s^{-1} cm^{-2}}$ produce $\sim60%$ of the strong-lensing optical depth, and only $\sim1%$ above a flux limit of $10^{-11.5} \mathrm{erg s^{-1} cm^{-2}}$ if mergers are taken into account.
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