The biasing of baryons on the cluster mass function and cosmological parameter estimation

Abstract

We study the effect of baryonic processes on the halo mass function in the galaxy cluster mass range using a catalogue of 153 high resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the AMR code ramses. We use the results of our simulations within a simple analytical model to gauge the effects of baryon physics on the halo mass function. Neglect of AGN feedback leads to a significant boost in the cluster mass function similar to that reported by other authors. However, including AGN feedback not only gives rise to systems that are similar to observed galaxy clusters, but they also reverse the global baryonic effects on the clusters. The resulting mass function is closer to the unmodified dark matter halo mass function but still contains a mass dependent bias at the 5-10% level. These effects bias measurements of the cosmological parameters, such as ${\sigma }_8$ and ${\Omega }_m$. For current cluster surveys baryonic effects are within the noise for current survey volumes, but forthcoming and planned large SZ, X-ray and multi-wavelength surveys will be biased at the percent level by these processes. The predictions for the halo mass function including baryonic effects need to be carefully studied with larger and improved simulations. However, simulations of full cosmological boxes with the resolution we achieve and including AGN feedback are still computationally challenging.

12 pages, 3 tables, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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