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The Nature of Dark Energy from deep Cluster Abundance

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that using the redshift dependence of the deep cluster abundance to detect the nature of Dark Energy is a serious challenge. We compare the expected differences between flat LCDM models, with different Omega_mo, with the difference between LCDM and dynamical DE models. In the former case, cluster abundances in comoving volume and geometrical factors act in the same direction, yielding a significant difference between the expected angular densities. On the contrary, when we keep a constant Omega_mo and change the DE nature,abundances in comoving volume and geometrical factors act in the opposite direction, so that the expected differences in angular densities reduce to small factors.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0412054,
  title  = {The Nature of Dark Energy from deep Cluster Abundance},
  author = {P. Solevi and R. Mainini and S. A. Bonometto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0412054},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures; submitted to ApJ