Confronting dark energy models using galaxy cluster number counts

• Main Author: Manolis Plionis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Physical Review D 2010
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Galaxy cluster; info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1; info:eu-repo/classification/cti/21; Hubble; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1542

The mass function of cluster-size halos and their redshift distribution are computed for 12 distinct accelerating cosmological scenarios and confronted to the predictions of the conventional flat ΛCDM model. The comparison with ΛCDM is performed by a two-step process. Firstly, we determine the free...