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Some issues in cluster cosmology
Tim McKay
University of Michigan
Department of Physics
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An outline
• Cluster counting in theory
• Cluster counting in practice
– General considerations
– Optical cluster selection
– Weak lensing cluster surveys
• Imagining the future
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Cluster counting
constraints on the
expansion history
• Probing growth of linear perturbations by
measuring the space density of the largest peaks
Theorist’s cluster = mass peak to R200
• Counts, mass spectrum of halos
• Analytic theory and N-body simulations predict
dn/dM as a function of z
• Cosmology comes from comparison of observed
dn/dM vs. z to theory
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Cluster detection
methods
How do we measure mass peaks in 3D?
We don’t
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What’s a ‘cluster’ made
of?
Large peak in matter density
– Dark matter clump (~75% of mass)
– Many luminous galaxies (~2.5%: 10% of baryons)
• BCG and red sequence
• Additional galaxies
• Diffuse light
– Hot gas (~22.5%: 90% of baryons)
• Emits X-rays
• Causes SZ decrement in microwave background
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What’s are the cluster
observables?
Cluster detection measures something other than
mass: some observables like SZe, X-ray flux, Xray temperature, galaxy richness, galaxy v,
shear…..
To approach dn/dM vs. z we need to know:
M(observables,z)
Efficiency(observables, z)
The mass function is very steep!
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Relating cluster counts
to the predicted dn/dM
Usually this relation is written:
dn
dV

ddz ddz
z

M lim
dn
dM
dVdM
In reality this should be something like:
z

b
g
dn
dV
dn
dM

(z)
( z ) E M , O, z dO
ddz ddz 0 dVdM
dO
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Cluster detection
methods: observer’s
clusters
• Clusters of galaxies: 2D, 2.5D, 3D
• Clusters of hot gas: X-ray, SunyaevZeldovitch
• Clusters of projected mass: 2D, 2.1D?
In every case we must learn the astrophysics
to constrain M=f(observable)
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Analogy to SNe
For SNe, we want to know luminosity: measure
spectrum, stretch, rise time, extinction, peak to
tail ratio etc….
For clusters, we want to know mass: measure SZe,
Fx, Tx, gal, lensing, Ngal, etc.
We need to count all clusters:
– absolute efficiency required
– fundamentally a Poisson limited process (cosmic
variance)
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How will we learn what
we need to know?
• Study clusters through all these methods
• Add extensions of structure formation modeling
• Couple both through observations of scaling
relations
• Once we constrain clusters, we still need to
understand observational effects
– K-corrections, angular resolution effects, projection,
sensitivity vs. z, noise correlations
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Finding clusters of
galaxies in 2D optical
data
• In the common wisdom this is plagued by
projection
• New methods rely on uniform colors of cluster
ellipticals (they are all old)
• Color <=> redshift: find clusters of objects with
tightly clustered colors
• Provides good redshifts and projection is not an
issue
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SDSS ‘maxBCG’ cluster
catalog
Jim Annis (FNAL)
An example
cluster at
z=0.15
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ridgeline
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SDSS ‘maxBCG’ cluster
catalog
Jim Annis (FNAL)
Redshift estimates tested by > 104 spectra
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How do we compare
maxBCG to clusters of
mass?
• Do all clusters of mass have red sequence
ellipticals? => Galaxy evolution vs.
environment
• The observables are ‘Ngals’, z, and a
luminosity. How do these relate to mass?
Uncertainties here affect both efficiency and mass estimation
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Mass calibration for
maxBCG clusters
Calibration of
mass (v) from
weak lensing
vs. Ngals
Distribution of
Ngals(M)?
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Finding clusters in the
projected mass
distribution
• The weak lensing
observable is shear,
related to projected mass
by a geometric filter
• Weak lensing signal is
independent of evolution
in the baryons
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How to find masses
from lensing:
‘Tangential shear’ is related to density contrast
af

a f af
    crit    
T

crit is the surface mass density for multiple lensing
Measure T and crit and you have the surface
mass density contrast. Deriving a mass from this
still requires model fitting.
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How to measure shear?
Intrinsic shapes are elliptical and unknown (mean0.3)
=> how to determine distortion?
Strong lensing: distortions larger than intrinsic ellipticity
Weak lensing: distortions smaller than intrinsic ellipticity
Statistical measurement: many source galaxies required
Must be able to measure the shape of each galaxy to use it
Shear measurement requires correction of instrumental PSF
and distortion effects. For stable PSFs new methods will
allow this to arbitrary precision (Gary Bernstein later…)
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Size magnitude relation
25th magnitude
Ground:
>0.3” half
light radius
Gardner &
Satyapal:
Sizes from
STIS HDF
south images
Space:
>0.05” half
light radius
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critical: Important geometry
dependence
Ds

’

Source

Observer
Lens
Dds
 critical
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Dd
F
I
G
J
H K
2
c
Ds
g
D

 0.35 2
4G Dd Dds
cm 1Gpc
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Some model lensing data
sets
1. Ground based R=25 (size limited)
2. Space based R=28
3. Space based R=30
Apply these ‘observations’ to the Virgo
simulation cluster catalogs from Evrard
et al.
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Basics for three surveys:
why go so faint?
Basic geometry
is similar for the
three surveys.
Lensing S/N is
much higher
for a deeper
space based
survey.
Sensitivity
changes due to
source density.
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Sensitivity
tilted to low-z.
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Survey to 25th
magnitude
Dotted lines:
•Detected
Dashed lines:
•Detected with
an incorrect
source z
distribution!
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M>5x1013Msun
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Survey to 28th
magnitude
Dotted lines:
•Detected
Dashed lines:
•Detected with
an incorrect
source z
distribution!
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M>5x1013Msun
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Survey to 30th
magnitude
Dotted lines:
•Detected
Dashed lines:
•Detected with
an incorrect
source z
distribution!
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What goes into
formulating mass?
• Cluster redshift
• Source distribution (variance?)
• Other mass projected along line of sight
– Random
– Associated (filaments etc.)
– (X-ray and SZ are better….)
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Cluster detection: peaks
in the projected mass
Projection effects and ‘dark clusters’:
White, van Waerbeke and Mackey astro-ph/0111490
Combined methods: find in
optical, measure with
lensing, understand
projection?
Very bad on a steeply falling spectrum!
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Combined
Foreground lens
Background lens
Example of projection effects from White, van Waerbeke,
and Mackey
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An additional concern:
cosmic variance in
cluster normalization
Virgo simulations of
Evrard et al. astroph/011024
Shows dn/dM for 16
independent ‘local’
universes (5000
square degrees to
z<0.15)
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Cosmic variance and 8
Interpreting dn/dM
for cosmology
requires 8
constraints from
local universe.
Cosmic variance is
about 0.06
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Local counts
to 6x1014M
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Clusters for cosmology
• Clusters make great cosmological probes
– Very detectable
– Evolution is approachable
– Sensitive (exponential) dependence on cosmology
• Clusters are complex: we must understand them
better to use them for cosmology
• Observing clusters is complex: measurements
are projected
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Clusters for cosmology
Imagine having: SZe, z, Fx, Tx, gal, lensing,
Ngal, etc.
This will allow systematic control analogous
to Sne
Still need to know absolute number (cosmic
variance, dark clusters?)
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