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Chandra X-ray observations of rich, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters allow the properties of the X-ray gas and the total gravitating mass to be determined precisely. Here, we discuss how Chandra observations may be used as a powerful tool for cosmological studies. By combining Chandra X-ray results on the X-ray gas mass fractions in clusters with independent measurements of the Hubble constant and the mean baryonic matter density of the universe, we obtain a tight constraint on the mean total matter density of the universe, Ωm, and an interesting constraint on the cosmological constant, ΩΛ. Using these results, together with the observed local X-ray luminosity function of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters, a mass-luminosity relation determined from Chandra and ROSAT X-ray data and weak gravitational lensing observations, and the mass function predicted by numerical simulations, we obtain a precise constraint on the normalization of the power spectrum of density fluctuations in the nearby universe, σ8. We compare our results with those obtained from other, independent methods.
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Allen, S.W. (2003). Cosmological Constraints from Chandra X-ray Observations of Galaxy Clusters. In: Lobo, C., Serote Roos, M., Biviano, A. (eds) Galaxy Evolution in Groups and Clusters. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0107-6_32
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