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Cosmological constraints from the Chandra-Planck galaxy cluster sample

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-10-16 v2

Abstract

We provide a new scaling relation between YSZY_{\text{SZ}}, the integrated Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal and M500YXM_{500}^{Y_{\text{X}}}, the cluster mass derived from X-ray observations, using a sample of clusters from the Planck Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich (ESZ) catalogue observed in X-rays by Chandra, and compare it to the results of the Planck collaboration obtained from XMM-Newton observations of a subsample of the ESZ. We calibrated a mass bias on a subset of the Planck cosmological cluster sample using published weak-lensing data from CCCP and MENeaCS, for the new scaling relation as well as that from the Planck collaboration. We propose a novel method to account for selection effects and find a mass bias of (1b)=0.89±0.04(1-b)=0.89\pm0.04 for the Chandra-calibrated scaling relation, and (1b)=0.76±0.04(1-b)=0.76\pm0.04 for the XMM-Newton-calibrated scaling relation. We apply the scaling relations we derived to the full Planck cosmological cluster sample and obtain identical cosmological constraints regardless of the X-ray sample used, with σ8=0.77±0.02\sigma_8 =0.77\pm0.02, Ωm=0.31±0.02\Omega_m=0.31\pm0.02, and S8=σ8Ωm/0.3=0.78±0.02S_8= \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_m / 0.3}=0.78\pm0.02. We also provide constraints with a redshift evolution of the scaling relation fitted from the data instead of fixing it to the self-similar value. We find a redshift evolution significantly deviating from the self-similar value, leading to a higher value of S8=0.81±0.02S_8=0.81\pm0.02. We compare our results to those from various cosmological probes, and find that our S8S_8 constraints are competitive with the tightest constraints from the literature. When assuming a self-similar redshift evolution, our constraints are in agreement with most late-time probes and in tension with constraints from the CMB primary anisotropies. When relaxing the assumption of redshift evolution and fitting it to the data, we find no significant tension with results from either late-time probes or the CMB.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.04006,
  title  = {Cosmological constraints from the Chandra-Planck galaxy cluster sample},
  author = {G. Aymerich and M. Douspis and G. W. Pratt and L. Salvati and E. Soubrié and F. Andrade-Santos and W. Forman and C. Jones and N. Aghanim and R. Kraft and R. J. van Weeren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04006},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

21 pages, 20 figures, accepted by A&A

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