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Constraints on dark energy from the CSST galaxy clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-04-04 v1

Abstract

We study the potential of the galaxy cluster sample expected from the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey to constrain dark energy properties. By modelling the distribution of observed cluster mass for a given true mass to be log-normal and adopting a selection threshold in the observed mass M200m0.836×1014h1MM_{200m} \geq 0.836 \times 10^{14} h^{-1}M_{\odot}, we find about 4.1×1054.1 \times 10^{5} clusters in the redshift range 0z1.50 \leq z \leq 1.5 can be detected by the CSST. We construct the Fisher matrix for the cluster number counts from CSST, and forecast constraints on dark energy parameters for models with constant (w0w_0CDM) and time dependent (w0waw_0w_aCDM) equation of state. In the self-calibration scheme, the dark energy equation of state parameter w0w_0 of w0w_0CDM model can be constrained to Δw0=0.036\Delta w_0 = 0.036. If waw_a is added as a free parameter, we obtain Δw0=0.077\Delta w_0 = 0.077 and Δwa=0.39\Delta w_a = 0.39 for the w0waw_0w_aCDM model, with a Figure of Merit for (w0,waw_0,w_a) to be 68.99. Should we had perfect knowledge of the observable-mass scaling relation (``known SR" scheme), we would obtain Δw0=0.012\Delta w_0 = 0.012 for w0w_0CDM model, Δw0=0.062\Delta w_0 = 0.062 and Δwa=0.24\Delta w_a = 0.24 for w0waw_0w_aCDM model. The dark energy Figure of Merit of (w0,waw_0,w_a) increases to 343.25. By extending the maximum redshift of the clusters from zmax1.5z_{max} \sim 1.5 to zmax2z_{max} \sim 2, the dark energy Figure of Merit for (w0,waw_0,w_a) increases to 89.72 (self-calibration scheme) and 610.97 (``known SR" scheme), improved by a factor of 1.30\sim 1.30 and 1.78\sim 1.78, respectively. We find that the impact of clusters' redshift uncertainty on the dark energy constraints is negligible as long as the redshift error of clusters is smaller than 0.01, achievable by CSST. We also find that the bias in logarithm mass must be calibrated to be 0.300.30 or better to avoid significant dark energy parameter bias.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2302.05010,
  title  = {Constraints on dark energy from the CSST galaxy clusters},
  author = {Yufei Zhang and Mingjing Chen and Zhonglue Wen and Wenjuan Fang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05010},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

19 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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