Cosmological Implications and Physical Properties of an X-Ray Flux-Limited Sample of Galaxy Clusters

Abstract

The original abstract significantly exceeds the space available here, so here's a brief summary. The abstract is similar to the abstract of astro-ph/0111285 (ApJ, 567, 716) which describes the X-ray galaxy cluster sample HIFLUGCS, the X-ray luminosity--gravitational mass relation, the cluster mass function, and the derived cosmological constraints. Additionally, the fraction of the total gravitating mass in the universe which is contained in intracluster gas is quantified. Furthermore, physical properties of the cluster sample have been studied and analyses of relations between different cluster parameters (including the gas mass fraction, gas temperature, X-ray luminosity, gas mass, gravitational mass, beta, and core radius) are discussed. Also, results from an analysis of XMM-Newton performance verification phase data of Abell 1835 are described.

arXiv comment143 pages; Ph.D. thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (2001); thesis was submitted on July 27, 2001 (i.e., it took me two years to get around to submit it to astro-ph); the abstract -Chapter 0- is in German, the rest in English (the summary -Chapter 9- is pretty much a translation of Chapter 0 into English); also available at http://www.reiprich.net

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