Improved Cosmological Constraints from SDSS redMaPPer Clusters via X-ray Follow-up of a Complete Subsample of Systems

TL;DR

This paper enhances cosmological parameter constraints using X-ray follow-up data of SDSS redMaPPer clusters, reducing uncertainties and aligning results with Planck, while also calibrating the gas mass-mass relation.

Contribution

It introduces X-ray follow-up of a complete SDSS cluster sample to refine cosmological constraints and gas mass scaling relations.

Findings

Reduced uncertainties in $\

Omega_m = 0.25 1 0.04

sigma_8 = 0.85^{+0.06}_{-0.08}

Abstract

We improve upon the cosmological constraints derived from the abundance and weak-lensing data of redMaPPer clusters detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Specifically, we derive gas mass data using Chandra X-ray follow-up of a complete sample of the 30 richest SDSS redMaPPer clusters with $z\in[0.1,0.3]$, and use these additional data to improve upon the original analysis by Costanzi et al. (2019b). We simultaneously fit for the parameters of the richness-mass relation, the cluster gas mass-mass relation, and cosmology. By including our X-ray cluster sample in the SDSS cluster cosmology analysis, we measure $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.25 \pm 0.04$ and $\sigma_8 = 0.85^{+0.06}_{-0.08}$. These constraints represent a 25.5% and 29.8% reduction in the size of the 68% confidence intervals of $\Omega_{\rm m}$ and $\sigma_8$ respectively, relative to the constraints published in Costanzi et al. (2019b). Our cosmological constraints are in agreement with early universe results from Planck. As a byproduct of our analysis, we also perform an independent calibration of the amplitude of the $\langle M_{\rm gas}^{\rm true}|M_{\rm 500c}\rangle$ scaling relation. Our calibration is consistent with and of comparable precision to that of Mantz et al. (2016b).