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Cosmology with SZ and X-ray cluster surveys

Ruediger Kneissl

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0001106

Abstract

Hydrodynamical simulations are used in combination with the Press-Schechter expression to simulate Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) galaxy cluster sky maps. These are used to gauge the ability of future SZ observations to provide information about the cosmological parameters H0, OmegaM, and the gas fraction fg in clusters. This work concentrates on prospects for AMI, the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager, a new type of compact interferometric array currently proposed in Cambridge. The expectations are contrasted with those for X-ray missions, such as XMM, and the benefits of combining SZ and X-ray data are highlighted.

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