The intracluster gas fraction in X-ray clusters: constraints on the clustered mass density
dc.contributor.author | Evrard, August E. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-14T19:12:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-08-14T19:12:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997-12-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Evrard, AE. (1997). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 292:(2) 289-297. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60620> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701148 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60620 | |
dc.description.abstract | The mean intracluster gas fraction of X-ray clusters within their hydrostatic regions is derived from recent observational compilations of David, Jones & Forman and White & Fabian. At radii encompassing a mean density 500 times the critical value, the individual sample bi-weight means are moderately (2.4 sigma) discrepant; revising binding masses with a virial relation calibrated by numerical simulations removes the discrepancy and results in a combined sample mean and standard error (f) over bar(gas)(r(500)) = (0.060 +/- 0.003) h(-3/2). For hierarchical clustering models with an extreme physical assumption to maximize cluster gas content, this value constrains the universal ratio of total, clustered-to-baryonic mass Omega(m)/Omega(b) less than or equal to 23.1 h(3/2). Combining this with a maximal value of Omega(b), from primordial nucleosynthesis results in Omega(b) h(1/2) < 0.76. A more physically plausible approach based on low deuterium abundance inferences from quasar absorption spectra and accounting for baryons within cluster galaxies yields an estimate of Omega(m) h(2/3) = 0.30 +/- 0.07, With sources Of systematic error involved in the derivation providing approximately 30 per cent additional uncertainty. Other effects which could enhance the likelihood of the Einstein-de Sitter case Omega(m) = 1 are presented, and their observable signatures discussed. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Science Ltd | en_US |
dc.subject | Galaxies : Clusters : General | en_US |
dc.subject | Cosmology : Observations | en_US |
dc.subject | Cosmology : Theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Dark Matter | en_US |
dc.title | The intracluster gas fraction in X-ray clusters: constraints on the clustered mass density | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Inst Astrophys, F-75014 Paris, France | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Inst Theoret Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60620/1/Evrard1997Intracluster.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Astrophysics (Physics, Department of) |
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