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Volume 36, 2009
Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories
Page(s) 149 - 151
DOI 10.1051/eas/0936021
Published online 30 May 2009

Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories
E. Pécontal, T. Buchert, Ph. Di Stefano and Y. Copin (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 36 (2009) 149-151
DOI: 10.1051/eas/0936021

Constraining gravity at large scales with X-ray galaxy cluster studies

D. Rapetti1, S.W. Allen1, A. Mantz1, H. Ebeling2, R. Schmidt3, R. Glenn Morris1 and A.C. Fabian4

1  KIPAC at Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford CA, 94305-4085, USA, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
2  Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
3  Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Mönchhofstrasse 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
4  Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK


Published online: 30 May 2009

Abstract
Using two complementary X-ray galaxy cluster studies we present new cosmological constraints on dark energy. Using Chandra measurements of the X-ray gas mass fraction, $f_{\rm gas}$, we obtain a detection of the effects of dark energy comparable in significance to recent type Ia supernovae (SNIa) studies. Using X-ray luminosity function (XLF) data from galaxy cluster surveys, we obtain the first interesting determination of the dark energy equation of state from measurements of the growth of cosmic structure in clusters. Both of our experiments provide strong, independent support to the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm.



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