Testing X-ray measurements of galaxy cluster gas mass fraction using the cosmic distance-duality relation

作     者：Xin Wang Xiao-Lei Meng Yong-Feng Huang Tong-Jie Zhang 

作者机构：School of Astronomy and Space Science Nanjing University Department of Astronomy Beijing Normal University National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China Chinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第13卷第9期

页      面：1013-1024页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 program Grant Nos. 2009CB824800 and 2012CB821804) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11033002 and 11173006) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 

主　　题：X rays: galaxies: clusters    cosmology: distance scale    galaxies: clus ters: general    cosmology: observations    supernovae: general 

摘      要：We propose a consistency test for some recent X-ray gas mass fraction （fgas） measurements in galaxy clusters, using the cosmic distance-duality relation, Ttneory = DL（1 ＋ Z）-2/DA, with luminosity distance （DL） data from the Union2 compilation of type Ia supernovae. We set Z/theory = 1, instead of assigning any red- shift parameterizations to it, and constrain the cosmological information preferred by fga8 data along with supernova observations. We adopt a new binning method in the reduction of the Union2 data, in order to minimize the statistical errors. Four data sets of X-ray gas mass fraction, which are reported by Allen et al. （two samples）, LaRoque et al. and Ettori et al., are analyzed in detail in the context of two theoretical models of fgas. The results from the analysis of Alien et al.＇s samples demonstrate the feasibility of our method. It is found that the preferred cosmology by LaRoque et al.＇s sample is consistent with its reference cosmology within the 1σ confidence level. However, for Ettori et al.＇s fgas sample, the inconsistency can reach more than a 3σ confidence level and this dataset shows special preference to an ΩA = 0 cosmology.